I am sitting on my front porch after cleaning up from Hurricane Irma. We do not yet have electricity, but thanks to modern technology I can text, talk, and send emails. As we were helping our neighbor put their fence back up, I got a call from an older patient …

We write about diabetes disasters every week. We write of how we have prevented some and share with you, our readers, how you too can prevent disasters. This week, we ask you to help us PREVENT DIABETES DISASTERS BIG TIME by giving to the many people who have diabetes and have been affected by the current weather disasters.

Drs. Sood and Messer talk with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about their technology preferences to communicate with patients in the safest way possible and preferred drug classes when deciding on treatment.

In this week's Homerun Slides, the significance of albuminuria.

Lipoprotein metabolism in normal individuals and in type 2 diabetes mellitus: Triglyceride levels in blood are regulated by the size and number of VLDL secreted from the liver and the efficiency with which triglycerides are cleared from the plasma by lipoprotein lipases. In T2DM, greater numbers of larger, more triglyceride-enriched VLDL are secreted from the liver and lipoprotein lipase activity may be modestly reduced; both lead to increased levels of triglyceride in the blood. HDL cholesterol levels are reduced for several reasons, including increased transfer of that cholesterol to very low- and low-density lipoprotein, in exchange for their triglyceride, by cholesterol ester transfer protein. LDL particles lose some of their cholesterol to VLDL via the same exchange mechanism, which generate smaller, denser, LDL.