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 15 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. 

Recurrent Subthreshold Depression in Type 2 Diabetes:

An Important Risk Factor for Poor Health Outcomes

http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-1832

Physical Activity and Risk of All-Cause and Cardiovascular

Disease Mortality in Diabetic Adults From Great Britain:

Pooled Analysis of 10 Population-Based Cohorts

http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-1816

Diabetes Prevention in the Real World: Effectiveness of

Pragmatic Lifestyle Interventions for the Prevention of

Type 2 Diabetes and of the Impact of Adherence to

Guideline Recommendations: A Systematic Review and

Meta-analysis

http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-2195

Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes in Subjects With Prediabetes

and Metabolic Syndrome Treated With Phentermine and

Topiramate Extended Release

http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-1518

Dietary Sugar and Body Weight: Have We Reached a Crisis in

the Epidemic of Obesity and Diabetes? Health Be Damned!

Pour on the Sugar

http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-2085

Dietary Sugar and Body Weight: Have We Reached a Crisis in

the Epidemic of Obesity and Diabetes? We Have, but the

Pox on Sugar Is Overwrought and Overworked

http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-2506

Occurrence of Spontaneous Pancreatic Lesions in Normal

and Diabetic Rats: A Potential Confounding Factor in the

Nonclinical Assessment of GLP-1–Based Therapies

http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/db13-1268

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

Presented by: 

Neil S. Skolnik, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine; Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Memorial Hospital. 

John J. Russell, M.D., Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine;  Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Memorial Hospital.