Diabetes Discourse

Can telehealth change the way we manage persistently controlled type 2 diabetes (PPDM)? Dr. John Buse speaks with Dr. Matt Crowley, an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition at Duke University, to explore some of the research on different methods of telehealth.

Food assistance programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) can help relieve food insecurity. But can they also lower healthcare spending? To answer this question, Dr. John Buse sits down with Dr. Seth Berkowitz from the Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Researchers from the GRADE study zeroed in on islet autoimmunity in beta cell dysfunction for patients with type 2 diabetes. What did various treatment options show us? Dr. John Buse speaks with Dr. Ashok Balasubramanyam, a Professor in the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Baylor College of Medicine.

Precision medicine may be the future of diabetes treatment. But what’s needed to implement this approach into practice? Here to explore this concept with Dr. John Buse is Dr. Jose Florez, Chief of the Endocrine Division and Diabetes Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Emerging research has shed light on the possibility of generic drugs being repurposed for the treatment of COVID-19. Dr. John Buse discusses metformin, ivermectin, and fluvoxamine with Dr. Carolyn Bramante, an Assistant Professor in the Division of Geriatrics, Palliative and Primary Care at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Out of the 32 million patients with diabetes in the United States, 40 percent also have chronic kidney disease. But what’s even more alarming is that only 10 percent of these patients know they have chronic kidney disease. So what strategies can we use to address the unmet needs and barriers faced when managing patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes? Joining Dr. Charles Turck to answer this and other key questions is Dr. Javier Morales, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell on Long Island.

Approximately 34 million patients live with diabetes in the United States, and up to 40 percent of those patients also have chronic kidney disease (CKD). That’s why it’s so important to know how to identify and prevent CKD progression in patients with diabetes, and here to share key strategies is Dr. Gates Colbert, Assistant Clinical Professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine.

Patients with diabetes-related chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at high risk for a number of adverse events over a relatively short period of time. So what do we have in terms of efficacious therapies that can help make a positive impact in that regard? Here to share what we need to know about non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) for the treatment of diabetes-related CKD is Dr. Mikhail Kosiborod, Director of Cardiometabolic Research and Co-Director of the Haverty Cardiometabolic Center of Excellence at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute.

In the ongoing battle against obesity, what does the SURMOUNT-1 study tell us about the role of tirzepatide? Dr. Ania Jastreboff, who is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the co-director of Weight Management and Obesity Prevention Program at Yale School of Medicine, chats with Dr. John Buse and this study’s findings.

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) published a new consensus report with the American College of Cardiology on heart failure in patients with diabetes. What does this report recommend—and how will these recommendations impact clinical practice? Dr. John Buse speaks with Dr. Rodica Pop-Busui from the University of Michigan about these updated heart failure recommendations.