Clinical Update

Diabetes risk factors, diagnosis, management, and complications


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Primary care professionals have broadly welcomed the 2026 update to the NICE type 2 diabetes guidelines because it focuses on reducing the risk of diabetes-related complications, such as cardiovascular disease, as well as optimising glycaemic control. With this in mind, MIMS Learning medical editors Dawn and Sangeeta take a deep dive into the extensive diabetes content available on MIMS Learning. 


They look at how both latent autoimmune diabetes (LADA) and type 3c diabetes can be misdiagnosed as type 2 diabetes, risk factors for diabetes (such as obesity), and multiple diabetes-related complications (including cardio-renal-metabolic disease).


Educational objectives

After listening to this podcast, healthcare professionals should be better able to:

  • Describe the different types of diabetes that might present in primary care
  • Discuss how ethnicity can affect both the risk of diabetes and the risk of diabetes-related complications
  • Review the overlap in management of type 2 diabetes, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease
  • Recall potential diabetes-related complications, including cardio-renal-metabolic disease and foot ulcers. 


You can access the website version of this podcast, along with a list of key learning points, on MIMS Learning - and make notes for your appraisal. MIMS Learning offers hundreds of hours of CPD for healthcare professionals, along with a handy CPD organiser.


Please note: this podcast is presented by medical editors and discusses educational content written or presented by doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals on the MIMS Learning website and at live events.


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Type 2 diabetes in South Asian and African-Caribbean populations

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