Diabetes Core Update

Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 20 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals.

Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatment setting.

This issue will review:

1. Influence of Baseline Diastolic Blood Pressure on the Outcomes of Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering
2. Effects of an Electronic Software “Prompt” on Cardiovascular and Renal Complications in a Population With Type 2 Diabetes and Microalbuminuria
3. Randomized Trial Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Fast- Acting Insulin Aspart Compared With Insulin Aspart, Both in Combination With Insulin Degludec
4. Obstructive Sleep Apnea, a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular and Microvascular Disease in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
5. Social Support, Social Network Size, Social Strain, Stressful Life Events, and Coronary Heart Disease in Women With Type 2 Diabetes
6. Whole-Grain Processing and Glycemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Crossover Trial

For more information about each of ADA’s science and medical journals, please visit www.diabetesjournals.org.

Presented by:

Neil Skolnik, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Jefferson Health

John J. Russell, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Chair-Department of Family Medicine, Abington Jefferson Health