Tina Burge, Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate, FAMU College of Pharmacy Reviewed by Dave Joffe, BSPharm, CDE It’s well-known that patients with diabetes have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease when compared to patients without diabetes. Diabetes type 2 has a high prevalence in the obese (BMI ³ 25kg/m2) and overweight …

  Steven J. Russell MD, PhD, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, explains that, in his studies with a closed-loop system, using CGM in real-time is proving to be a highly effective motivational tool….

Dr. Carol Wysham discusses the most difficult challenges in managing patients today suggesting that measuring adherence, setting reasonable limits, and coordination of the monitoring of medication adherence are among those challenges….