November 16, 2015 : DCMS #267

DISASTERS AVERTED — Near Miss Case Studies

When Binge Eating Disorder May Not be a Disorder

HOMERUN SLIDES — Great Clinical Presentation Highlights

The Present and Future of Insulin Therapy Part 16

CLINICAL GEMS — The Best from Diabetes Texts

Practical Diabetes Care, 3rd Ed., Excerpt #38: Psychological Aspects of Diabetes Part 2 of 4

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — Candid Video Interviews with Top Practitioners

Dr. Larry Hirsch, Part 3: Silent Occlusion

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Younger and Older are two words that have a lot to do with the psychological effects of diabetes. We are all seeing patients being diagnosed at a Younger age, and these patients experience more problems as they become Older, due to the years of diabetes. This length of disease can wreak havoc on our patients, and the burden of living with the knowledge that this disease will never be going away can overwhelm the strongest people.

The effects of this stress can be seen in our Disaster Averted, and we offer real solutions in Part 2 of our Clinical Text on the Psychological Aspects of Diabetes.

Even our video interview with Dr. Larry Hirsch looks at a problem that stresses many pump-using patients.

Your partner in diabetes care,
Dave Joffe
Editor-in-chief

Male, 72 years of age, type 2 diabetes, overweight secondary to binge eating disorder. Taking glipizide 20mg daily and metformin 1,000mg twice daily. Hypoglycemic unawareness. Not regularly checking glucose. Recent A1C 6.8%.

In this week’s Homerun Slides, the addition of liraglutide to insulin degludec.

‘Brittle’ diabetes is a controversial and fortunately uncommon disorder, described especially in the UK and USA, usually occurring in young women, with onset at puberty, and defined as a patient whose life is ‘constantly disrupted by episodes of hypo- or hyperglycemia, whatever their cause.’

Diabetes in Control publisher Steve Freed met with Dr. Larry Hirsch, Vice President of Global Medical Affairs for the Diabetes Care Business at BD at the 2015 ADA Sessions in Boston. This week, Dr. Hirsch discusses the unexplainable highs, known as silent occlusions, that some patients using pumps may experience.