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Sean Duffy, Omada Health, talks about PreventNow’s early results which are looking very promising. Omada will continue to collect the data and he points out that, because the system is technology-driven, the data is fairly easy to gather so that they can continue to look at the results over the …

Sean Duffy, Omada Health, talks about how PreventNow is working with large health care organizations such as Viridian to reach patients. In particular, they are interested in partnering with “bricks & mortar” providers where they can provide a web complement giving people options and multiple ways to manage their health….

Sean Duffy, CEO, Omada Health, discusses the potential for PreventNow.com to help prediabetes patients lower overall medical costs. He talks about some of the studies demonstrating these improvements for patients with diabetes and that similar cost savings are very likely with prediabetic patients. More videos with Sean Duffy: Sean Duffy, …

  In this week’s Homerun Slides, we continue our exploration on the state of obesity in 2014 including topics on the relationship of BMI and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus, genes that cause or are associated with diabetes, and the two principal genetic defects in B-cells that can …

Sheri R. Colberg, PhD, and Michael C. Riddell, PhD Hypoglycemia Associated with Physical Activity Hypoglycemia risk. Hypoglycemia is the most common negative side effect of exercise, ranging from mild to life threatening in severity. The incidence of hypoglycemia during or after a single bout of moderate-intensity exercise in children and …

Patient Handout: Prediabetes Turnaround  What do you have to give to your newly diagnosed prediabetic patients? From dLife comes this pdf handout that provides 12 simple steps to help prevent diabetes. Keep these on your desk and have all your overweight and prediabetic patients read and take a copy home …

How quickly are clinicians identifying prediabetes in their patients, and then following up and treating it?… 

Midkine, also known as MK, a protein cytokine that promotes cell proliferation, differentiation, survival, and migration, may hold the clues…. 

For those patients who are obese, overweight, or who have gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), Dr. Colberg recomends starting out as if sedentary. Patients should start on the low side and progress from there. If they have been a little more active, they could try something strenuous but she cautions against …

Dr. Colberg goes over the exercise guidelines for patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes and outlines the differences. She explains that type 1 diabetes patients especially need to be more conscious of hypoglycemia risk during and after aerobic exercise while type 2’s should also be aware of this but …