Editor’s Note: Advantages of Losing Weight

Every day we hear how weight loss is good for our patients with diabetes but when we speak to them we are talking in such ambiguous terms that they often don’t see the value in losing weight. This is compounded by the fact that as we gain weight we have a shift in our neuroendocrine metabolic profile that makes losing weight almost impossible. This week in our Homerun Slides, Dr. Stanley Schwartz discusses the reasons for losing weight and how treating prediabetes can help with weight loss while improving risk factors and related problems such as sleep apnea and hypertension.

Our Disaster Averted looks at the value of an I.D. bracelet and why some are better than others, and this week we are proud to bring you some Clinical Cases from Ramzi Ajjan MRCP, Med Sci, PhD Dept of Diabetes and Endocrinology University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. In our Mastery In Minutes video this week, Lynne Raphael and Cathy Weilgus discuss how they are getting the word out on gestational diabetes.