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.

As a birthday present to myself, I decided to have my genome done and find out about my heritage. I know that both of my parents’ families had immigrated from Minsk, in what is now Belarus, and was once part of the USSR. I was hoping to find out how …

Over the years I’ve found the best teacher for people who have diabetes is their numbers. Without teaching the patient targets, they don’t learn much. This patient is just one example of many. A man, 57 years of age, visits a community diabetes education course. He tells me he has type 2 diabetes, hypertension hyperlipidemia. He said his doctor told him his numbers were fine about 9 months ago. When he came to the course, he was losing weight, was thirsty and was very tired.

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.