Diagnosing Diabetes Mellitus

Doctors Lisa and Sara talk to Consultant Endocrinologist Dr Rupinder Kochhar about patients with Type 2 Diabetes. Using hypothetical cases, we talk a little bit about diagnosis, but spend most of the time discussing the details of management in younger patients as well as how to ...  Show more

Doctors Lisa and Sara talk to Consultant Nephrologist Dr Darren Green about patients with Type 2 Diabetes who also have Chronic Kidney Disease and Heart Failure. We go through a hypothetical case to illustrate some of the finer points of management that can commonly get missed or ...  Show more

A macrovascular complication of diabetes, diabetic nephropathy is progressive, chronic kidney disease seen in patients with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus, usually after at least 10 years of hyperglycemia (high blood glucose levels). The three main lesions that are s ...

Type 2 diabetes is common. It accounts for over 90% of all diabetes, and has a prevalence of 8.5% in the US. And complications are common as well - from blindness to amputation to chronic kidney disease. So it is important that we get the diagnosis and management of this conditio ...  Show more

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 approxi ...

Drs Carol H. Wysham and Medha Munshi discuss type 2 diabetes in older adults, understanding geriatric syndromes and how they impact care, and when to de-escalate treatment. Relevant disclosures can be found with the episode show notes on Medscape https://www.medscape.com/viewarti ...  Show more