Patients often have to deal with problems we never think of and that makes it hard for them to manage their diabetes. This becomes most important when our patients are insulin users, especially if they have tactile problems or arthritis or joint problems. We try to make things easier by …

In this week’s Homerun Slides, courtesy Dr. Stanley Schwartz, we delve deeper into the possible explanations for the increase in mortality with tight glycemic control in the ACCORD trial as well as the effects of hypoglycemia on the cardiovascular system…. To download the complete set of these slides in PowerPoint (.ppt) …

Rudy Bilous, MD, FRCP Richard Donnelly, MD, PHD, FRCP, FRACP Diabetic nephropathy is a clinical diagnosis based upon the detection of proteinuria in a patient with diabetes in the absence of another obvious cause such as infection. Many of these patients will also be hypertensive, have retinopathy and, in advanced stages, renal …