Diabetes Comorbidities and Complications

Overview

What you will study

Sessions of the Diabetes Comorbidities and Complications program offered by Harvard University 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

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