Internal Medicine Meeting Recordings
In the United States and around the world, the number of people with diabetes continues to increase, particularly at younger ages and with the increase in rates of overweight and obesity. With longer duration of diabetes, more people develop chronic kidney disease and other microvascular complications as well as cardiovascular disease and stroke. Fortunately, therapeutic options are advancing rapidly, giving greater opportunities to improve the health of our patients, but the complexity of care is also increasing. This Pre-Course, recorded in conjunction with the Internal Medicine Meeting 2023, focuses on the diagnosis of prediabetes and diabetes, including less common forms such as maturity-onset diabetes of the young and latent autoimmune diabetes in adults, and reviews the role of lifestyle interventions as well as appropriate indications and practical use of weight loss medications in patients with overweight and diabetes. The risks and benefits of new insulin and noninsulin pharmacologic therapies are presented, and the role of diabetes medications, cholesterol-lowering agents, and blood pressure control to reduce cardiometabolic risk are thoroughly discussed.
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