The pressures of reimbursement have taken their affect on the amount of time that a patient gets to spend with their clinician. This means that often there is no time for you to say everything to your patient that you would like to and that means that the obesity conversation …

In this week's Homerun Slides, the conclusion of the framework for understanding diabetes focuses on appropriate medication according to patient need.

OSA and beta-cell function: While the impact of OSA in IR has been studied extensively, the impact of OSA on beta-cell function has received little attention, despite being an essential part of the pathogenesis of T2DM and prediabetes. A small number of animal studies showed that intermittent hypoxia increases beta-cell death, and results in beta-cell dysfunction, although the intermittent hypoxia used in this study is far greater than that which occurs in humans with OSA.