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Top 5 stories, videos from AADE
Endocrine Today has compiled a list of the top news reports and videos posted from the American Association of Diabetes Educators Annual Meeting & Exhibition, held Aug. 12 to 15 in San Diego.
Healio.com/Endocrinology readers were interested in recognizing symptoms of type 1 diabetes, composite endpoints that may predict diabetes outcomes, the immediate future of diabetes care, and much more.
VIDEO: Physicians, parents must be aware of type 1 diabetes signs before DKA
SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive, Endocrine Today Diabetes in Real Life columnist Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDE, CDN, speaks with Tom Karlya, father of two children with type 1 diabetes, creator of www.DiabetesDad.org, a syndicated column, and vice president of the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation, about misdiagnosis of type 1 diabetes. Increasingly, diagnosis is made only when a child presents with diabetic ketoacidosis. Watch video.
Composite endpoints beyond HbA1c may better predict diabetes outcomes
SAN DIEGO — An HbA1c measurement does not tell the full story about glycemic variability in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and is not the best metric to assess the efficacy of diabetes interventions, according to a speaker here.
Since the landmark Diabetes Control and Complications Trial in the early 1990s, change in HbA1c has been the traditional metric for determining the efficacy of any diabetes intervention, said Robert A. Vigersky, MD, medical director of Medtronic Diabetes. However, the measurement leaves many questions unanswered. Read more.
VIDEO: ADA director of type 1 diabetes describes immediate future of diabetes care
SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive, Endocrine Today Diabetes in Real Life columnist Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDE, CDN, speaks with Paul Madden, who has been living with type 1 diabetes for 55 years, about his tenure in the newly created position of director if type 1 diabetes at the American Diabetes Association. Watch video.
Peer support, connectivity empower college students with diabetes
SAN DIEGO — Young adults with type 1 diabetes often struggle with the new and added burden of managing a complicated disease on their own as they head off to college, yet many clinical providers and diabetes educators fail to discuss the topics that students have questions about, according to a speaker here.
“We realized that the right information wasn’t available,” said Christina Roth, chief executive officer and founder of the nonprofit advocacy group College Diabetes Network, said during the presentation at the American Association of Diabetes Educators annual meeting. “It wasn’t necessarily available in all the right topics, written in the right way, and in a way that was accessible when [young adults] actually needed it. So, our website has become a hub of information specific to young adults with diabetes.” Read more.
‘Sleep hygiene’ key component to diabetes prevention, management
SAN DIEGO — Too little or too much sleep is associated host of negative health outcomes, especially in patients with chronic conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, according to a speaker here.
“There is a perception, especially in America, that sleep is wasted time,” Terese Hammond, MD, assistant professor of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at the University of Southern California, told Endocrine Today before a presentation at the American Association of Diabetes Educators annual meeting. “Many successful people actually brag about how little they sleep they get and use it as a badge of honor, but the overwhelming body of research suggests that getting adequate quality sleep (between 6 and 9 hours per night) has wide ranging and positive health implications.” Read more.