This week, we continue our series of Homerun Slides from Dr. Stanley Schwartz focusing on the obesity epidemic. This week’s topics include: Gene Variants and Binge Eating as Predictors of Co-morbidities and Outcome of Treatment in Severe Obesity, Health Benefits of Modest Weight Loss, and a graphic representation of the …

  In this week’s Homerun Slides, we begin a short series on the current status of the obesity epidemic, courtesy of Dr. Stanley Schwartz, FACP, FACE. Topics covered this week include the Epidemiology and Economics of Obesity/Diabetes in the U.S….

Dr. Schwartz discusses what the best A1c might be for a patient with diabetes, the current ADA guidelines, and how the guidelines have changed over the years taking into account different clinical data and criteria, including measurements of retinopathy and CV health. He also discusses the possibility of getting A1c’s …

Stanley Schwartz, MD, talks about how most patients just can’t do enough exercise for significant weight loss but it should still be emphasized because of other benefits….

Stanley Schwartz, MD, talks about what works best (keeping it simple is very important) when helping patients manage their diabetes, and gives us specific details on his strategies, along with different medication options practitioners don’t always consider….

Dr. Schwartz describes how he helped to develop an intensive insulin regimen to decrease the incidence of hypoglycemia in hospitals but found that the strategy was not as effective as hoped. Incretins were then introduced to help control hypoglycemia and have since proved highly effective, and Dr. Schwartz outlines the …

Dr. Schwartz introduces himself and talks about his busy “retirement.”   More videos with Dr. Schwartz: Preventing Hypoglycemia in the Hospital Using Incretins Tips for Maximizing Medication Effectiveness and Patient Health How Exercise Fits In with Diabetes Control What Is the Best A1c?

In this week’s Homerun Slides, Part 8 of Dr. Stanley Schwartz’s series on An Aggressive Pathophysiologic Approach to Cardiometabolic Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes, we continue with our discussion last week of the benefits of Ranolazine for diabetes patients….

In this week’s continuation of our Homerun Slides series from Dr. Stanley Schwartz, we delve into the effects of Ranolazine on A1c and some of the studies done exploring the CV effects as well ….

In this week’s Homerun Slides, we present Part 6 of Dr. Stanley Schwartz’s series on An Aggressive Pathophysiologic Approach to Cardiometabolic Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes, in which we will look closely at at "Modern Insulin Resistant Man" who is locked into "Seasonal Insulin Resistance Syndrome Physiology"….