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Making Sense of Your Diabetes Lab Tests
After a routine appointment, your health care provider doctor hands you a requisition for a full panel of diabetes lab tests. These include HbA1c, creatinine, eGFR, LDL cholesterol, ALT, and a urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio. What does it all mean? While each test checks for something different, they are all designed to answer important questions about...
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What to Expect When Starting Semaglutide or Tirzepatide?
Semaglutide and tirzepatide are 2 drugs that are frequently used to manage type 2 diabetes. Semaglutide is marketed as either Ozempic or Wegovy and tirzepatide is marketed as either Mounjaro or Zepbound. They are excellent glucose lowering drugs and may also lower blood pressure. They also typically lower weight, reduce appetite and food cravings, with...
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Will My Children Inherit My Diabetes?
Diabetes is very common. Although its frequency varies with ancestry, an average of one of every nine or ten Canadians has diabetes. More than 90% of these people have type 2 diabetes, while less than 10% have type 1 diabetes. There is no question that genetics plays a role in the development of both types...
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Off-Label Use of Drugs Like Semaglutide and Tirzepatide in People With Type 1 Diabetes
The drugs semaglutide (marketed as Ozempic and Wegovy) and tirzepatide (marketed as Mounjaro and Zepbound) are widely used to treat people with type 2 diabetes. Many large, well-done research studies of thousands of people have clearly shown that these drugs can improve glucose control, reduce the need for other glucose lowering drugs, and promote weight...
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Is This Glucose-Lowering Drug the Right One for You?
Many new glucose lowering drugs for people with type 2 diabetes have been introduced over the last 30 years. In addition to various types of insulin, there are now 8 different classes of drugs that are available in Canada and that have been approved for type 2 diabetes. These include: Metformin Acarbose Sulfonylurea drugs (mainly...
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The Types of Basal Insulin
The beta cells that live in the pancreas normally secrete insulin into the blood stream 24 hours a day. They do this according to two general patterns. First, there is basal insulin secretion. This supplies a constant and low level of insulin to the body over a full 24-hour period, regardless of whether food is...