The diabetic spectrum: Diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. The chronic hyperglycemia of diabetes is associated with long-term damage, dysfunction, and failure of different organs, especially the eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart, and blood vessels.

In this Exclusive Interview transcript, Dace Trence talks with Diabetes in Control during the AACE 2018 convention in Boston about the benefits of CGMs and what changes they have brought to blood glucose measurement and the treatment of diabetes.

In this Exclusive Interview, Dace Trence talks with Diabetes in Control during the AACE 2018 convention in Boston about the benefits of CGMs and other therapies in the treatment of diabetes.

In part 1 of this Exclusive Interview, Dace Trence talks with Diabetes in Control during the AACE 2018 convention in Boston about her work and the positive effects of CGMs on the management of diabetes.

In part 2 of this Exclusive Interview, Dace Trence talks with Diabetes in Control during the AACE 2018 convention in Boston about the current usefulness of the A1C test.

In part 3 of this Exclusive Interview, Dace Trence talks with Diabetes in Control during the AACE 2018 convention in Boston about the usefulness of CGMs for people who are not on insulin therapy.

In part 4 of this Exclusive Interview, Dace Trence talks with Diabetes in Control during the AACE 2018 convention in Boston about the latest treatments and possible treatments coming down the pike in diabetes care.

In part 5, the conclusion of this Exclusive Interview, Dace Trence talks with Diabetes in Control during the AACE 2018 convention in Boston about diabetes and cardiovascular combo therapy, and how new medications and precision medicine are changing diabetes care.

And increase in midlife death rates across racial and ethnic groups in the United States

Early in my diabetes career, our publisher and my mentor, Steve Freed, had me live like I had diabetes for 2 weeks. I had to check my glucose before every meal, and count my carbs and calculate an insulin dose each time I ate. Although I didn’t have diabetes, he …