Diabetes Core Update: Covid-19 and Diabetes – Considerations for Health Care Professionals - April 2019

Diabetes Core Update: Covid-19 and Diabetes – Considerations for Health Care Professionals - April 2019

This special issue is an audio version of the American Diabetes Associations Covid-19 leadership team discussing a range of issues on Covid-19 and Diabetes.

Recorded March 31, 2020.

Topics include:

1. Access to medications
2. Effect on Diabetes Self-management
3. Can Patients take their own Supplies if they are an inpatient in the hospital – particularly insulin pumps and CGM
4. Considerations for Specific Hypoglycemic Medications during Inpatient Hospitalization
5. Differences in Management for Persons with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
6. SGLT-2 inhibitors and GLP-1 Receptor Agonists use During Covid-19 Infection
7. Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease during Covid-19
8. ACEs and ARBs
9. Stress among Healthcare Professionals

Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatment setting.

Presented by:

Robert Eckel, MD
ADA President, Medicine & Science
University of Colorado

Mary de Groot, PhD
ADA President, Health Care & Education
Indiana University

Irl Hirsch, MD
University of Washington

Anne Peters, MD
University of Southern California    

Louis Philipson, MD, PhD
ADA Past President, Medicine & Science
University of Chicago

Neil Skolnik, MD
Abington Jefferson Health