Episode 5 – Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

Vital Minds Podcast

Vital Minds is a podcast of the PA Foundation, a national nonprofit organization that promotes better health and wellness by providing PAs and PA students with philanthropic opportunities and resources. Each Vital Minds episode features a conversation between host James Millward, an early career PA, and a guest expert on a topic of relevance to the PA and healthcare provider audience, ranging from mental health to obesity to pain management and many more.

Episode 5 – November 2017

Topic: Diabetes and cardiovascular disease

Guest: Scott Urquhart, PA-C, DFAAPA

Support for this episode of Vital Minds is provided by Novo Nordisk, a global healthcare company with more than 90 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care, and experience that enables them to help people defeat other serious chronic conditions including: rare bleeding disorders, growth hormone-related disorders, and obesity.

Resources:

Diabetes Leadership Edge: Advancing PA Leadership in the Management of Type 2 Diabetes | Module 4 – Pharmacotherapy

Diabetes resources – AAPA Learning Central

Multifactorial Intervention and Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Cardiovascular risk assessment in patients with diabetes

Current perspectives on cardiovascular outcome trials in diabetes

Clinical Implications of Cardiovascular Outcome Trials in Type 2 Diabetes: From DCCT to EMPA-REG

Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes