Exclusive Interviews

Dr. George Bakris, MD, is a referral nephrologist, board-certified hypertension specialist, and professor of medicine and director of ASH Comprehensive Hypertension Center at The University of Chicago. He specializes in kidney disease as it relates to diabetes and blood pressure issues. In this interview, Dr. Bakris shares his excitement for the results of some important diabetes trials.

Dr. George Bakris talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA 77th Scientific Session in San Diego about kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, and their relationship to diabetes.

Dr. George Bakris shares his suggestions for reducing kidney disease risk in a talk with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA 77th Scientific Session in San Diego.

Dr. George Bakris shares the best resting heart rate in a talk with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA 77th Scientific Session in San Diego.

Dr. George Bakris explains the new ADA blood pressure guidelines in a talk with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA 77th Scientific Session in San Diego.

Dr. George Bakris talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA 77th Scientific Session in San Diego about the links between cardiovascular and kidney diseases.

Dr. George Bakris talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA 77th Scientific Session in San Diego about the increase of people on dialysis due to increase in kidney disease but decrease in cardiovascular mortality.

Dr. George Bakris talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA 77th Scientific Session in San Diego about the possible kidney benefits for those using SGLT-2s.

Dr. George Bakris talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA 77th Scientific Session in San Diego about what he is looking forward to in the results of some promising diabetes trials.

In part 1 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Karl Nadolsky talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about why obesity should be classified as a disease and how it is diagnosed as such.