October 24, 2017 : DCMS #368

DISASTERS AVERTED — Near Miss Case Studies

Teaching Children to Manage Diabetes Has Its Limits

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — Candid Video Interviews with Top Practitioners

Osama Hamdy Part 4, Fasting with Diabetes

HOMERUN SLIDES — Great Clinical Presentation Highlights

Albuminuria: A Lot More Than Just a Little Protein in the Urine Part 10

CLINICAL GEMS — The Best from Diabetes Texts

International Textbook of Diabetes Mellitus, 4th Ed., Excerpt #96: Metabolomics: Applications in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Insulin Resistance Part 2

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It is not unusual for many of us to begin to take things about diabetes for granted and forget to share some information with our patients. After showing many people how to use an insulin pen, medical professionals often will forget little things like taking the cap off of the needle and the like. This same problem occurs when patients with diabetes are responsible for siblings or children who often have diabetes.

This week’s Disaster Averted looks at what can happen when a parent assumes that their child is as knowledgeable as they are.

Dave Joffe

Editor-in-chief

Female, 25 years of age related a story to me she recalls from years back.

Patient was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 5 years of age. Mother has had type 1 diabetes since childhood, so patient had learned a lot about living with type 1 diabetes since a young child. Patient is and has been a very independent person. Both her mother and father trusted her and for the most part worked with her pediatrician to manage her diabetes.

In Part 4 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Osama Hamdy talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about how to safely fast to benefit weight loss and how to eat for maximum satiety.

In this week’s Homerun Slides, a focus on empagliflozin, another therapeutic approach in the treatment of CKD in this albuminuria presentation by Dr. Claude Lardinois.

What is “metabolomics?” Metabolomics is an emerging field of analytical chemistry whose goal is to quantify all metabolites in a biologic sample, typically through application of multiple analytical platforms that enable determinations across a variety of metabolite classes. As with other omics-based technologies, this comprehensive coverage of metabolism has the benefit of allowing the observation of metabolic stressor effects not only at a single target, but also the ripple effect of the stressor, including compensatory responses, across the metabolic landscape.

Recent meta-analysis conducted to address ideal amount of dietary carbohydrates in the management of T2DM.

Ralph DeFronzo and his researchers at UT Health at San Antonio announced that they have cured type 1 diabetes.

Meal sequencing may decrease glucose levels and insulin utilization.