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Scientists find dramatic weight loss may reverse type 2 diabetes in some patients.

Do you have a program in place to improve medication compliance? Follow the link to see how you and your colleagues compare.

What proportion of Americans age 45 years and older have self-reported memory problems -- is it 1 in 30, 1 in 16, 1 in 9, or 1 in 4? Follow the link for the answer.

Health care professionals who are endocrinologists, cardiologists or who work in these specialized fields know the complications of prediabetes or diabetes. Many of us have these patients. Sometimes it’s almost natural to talk with these patients differently than we’d talk with most of our patients who aren’t as well-educated. A woman, 59 years of age with prediabetes and strong history of cardiovascular disease complained of a slight chest pain not associated with exertion or shortness of breath, just an ongoing discomfort. Other than this, the patient — who is herself a health care provider —  is feeling fine.

Dace L. Trence, MD, FACE received her MD degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School.  She completed an internal medicine residency through Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis and, subsequently, returned to the University of Minnesota for Endocrine Fellowship.  Dr. Trence started practice with Group Health, Inc, in Minnesota, becoming Chief of Endocrinology, initiating several programs, including a Lipids Clinic, Diabetes Foot Care Clinic, and a Diabetes and Pregnancy Clinic.  After moving to Seattle to practice at Group Health of Puget Sound, becoming Chief of Endocrinology, then Chief of Medical Subspecialties, she then joined the faculty at the University of Washington. Currently she is a Professor in the Department of Medicine,  Director of the Diabetes Care Center and Director of the Endocrine Fellowship Program at the University of Washington.

In this week's Homerun Slides, we begin a review of the new Eversense CGM system.

The diabetic spectrum: Diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. The chronic hyperglycemia of diabetes is associated with long-term damage, dysfunction, and failure of different organs, especially the eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart, and blood vessels.

In this Exclusive Interview transcript, Dace Trence talks with Diabetes in Control during the AACE 2018 convention in Boston about the benefits of CGMs and what changes they have brought to blood glucose measurement and the treatment of diabetes.

In this Exclusive Interview, Dace Trence talks with Diabetes in Control during the AACE 2018 convention in Boston about the benefits of CGMs and other therapies in the treatment of diabetes.

In part 1 of this Exclusive Interview, Dace Trence talks with Diabetes in Control during the AACE 2018 convention in Boston about her work and the positive effects of CGMs on the management of diabetes.