The guideline for all diabetes patients is to get them on an ACE or an ARB when diagnosed, regardless of BP levels. This is so important that Medicare and Medicaid rate prescribers based on their patients’ adherence to these medications. The logic behind that rule has to do with the …

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In part 5, the conclusion of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Swapnil N. Rajpathak talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the ADA 2017 Scientific Sessions in San Diego, CA about upcoming research studies on patient adherence.

In this week's Homerun Slides, defining albuminuria, a marker for kidney dysfunction.

Concept of ectopic fat as a cause of tissue insulin resistance: It appears that individuals prone to T2DM (based in part on their nonmodifiable characteristics) show a greater propensity to accumulate visceral or ectopic fat for a given weight. Interestingly this characteristic, in turn, may be a downstream consequence of “impaired” subcutaneous fat storage capacity, the mechanisms of which deserve further research. As an extreme example of this concept, lipodystrophic individuals have an impaired ability to store subcutaneous fat and, as a consequence, they accumulate fat in visceral and ectopic tissues and so have marked insulin resistance.

Metabolic syndrome also associated with higher alanine aminotransferase levels longitudinally