UPDATE IN DIABETES COMORBIDITIES AND COMPLICATIONS
State-of-the-Art Approaches to Assessment, Risk Reduction, and Management
This comprehensive course provides education and updates to optimize your care of patients with diabetes and these conditions:
- Obesity
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Heart Failure
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Hypertension
- Hyperglycemia
- Hypoglycemia
- Dyslipidemia
- Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Sexual Dysfunction
Sessions are led by experts in these conditions and their impact on the patient with diabetes. Faculty deliver practical education that is focused on:
- Advancing your knowledge of diabetes comorbidities and complications
- Delivering state-of-the-art approaches to evaluation and management of the patient with diabetes and these conditions
- Optimizing clinical decision-making
- Improving patient outcomes
In addition to their clinical expertise, faculty have been chosen for their inspirational teaching skills and their ability to provide specific recommendations to incorporate the vast number of recent updates covered in this program into day-to-day clinical practice.
EDUCATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
This program provides strategies, updates, and new practice recommendations to improve your care of patients with diabetes. Coverage includes:
- Evaluating cardiovascular and renal risk in patients with diabetes
- Adjusting pharmacological therapies in the patient with diabetes complications
- Evaluating, managing, and monitoring diabetic CKD
- Obesity management: when to consider new therapeutic and surgical options
- Diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease in the patient with diabetes
- Management and prevention of kidney disease
- Hypertension and cholesterol management: customizing targets and treatment strategies for each patient
- Practical recommendations for the use of GLP-1 RA, SGLT-2 inhibitors, and MRA
- Heart failure: improving patient functional capacity with combined therapies
- New methods for managing peripheral vascular disease in diabetes patients
- Updates in the prevention and management of hypoglycemia
- Current guidelines for treating non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Evaluation and management of sexual dysfunction in patients with diabetes
- The expanded roles of SGLT-2 inhibitors, MRA, and GLP-1 RA in treating CV and renal disease
- Lifestyle medicine interventions: how to get patients to initiate and sustain healthy behavioral changes
- Innovation in stem cell therapies for diabetes patients
- Diabetes in pregnancy: new diagnosis and treatment guidelines
- Advances in glucose monitors, insulin pumps, and diabetes apps
- What the latest data tell us about diabetes prevention and risk assessment
- Important developments in insulin therapy
- Combining innovative therapeutic combinations with traditional approaches
- Strategies to assess and manage interacting comorbidities
- Medication interactions: avoiding adverse outcomes
Social, Racial, Sexual, and Cultural Differences in Diabetes Care Needs
We are committed to offering the best practices for health care equity and the needs of diverse patient populations. Highlights include:
- Management of diabetes and related disorders in diverse racial/ethnic populations
- Recognizing biases: strategies for achieving equity and addressing disparities
- Establishing and maintaining connections with patients
