Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is as prevalent as metabolic syndrome; occurs in about 1/3rd of urban individuals.Indians are highly predisposed to dev ...MORE
Statins are first-line therapy: Residual CVD risk remains in patients with diabetes treated with statins.Therapy with statin and TG-lowering combination may be ...MORE
CV deaths are increased up to 4-fold in diabetics compared with their nondiabetic counterparts.Guidance for industry - A therapy should demonstrate that it will ...MORE
We have worked for last 4 decades in the field of diabetes research and education with numerous papers published in reputed journals. With my team, I have cover ...MORE
Lord Ganesha is always shown with a big tummy and sweets (laddoos) in one hand. Yet he never had diabetes. A spiritual interpretation to this can be that the bi ...MORE
Twin studies of HbA1c suggest that HbA1c is genetically determined. Presence of CKD leads to underestimation of diabetes when HbA1c is used. Presence of iron de ...MORE
Type 2 diabetes is on the rise; lifestyle is mainly responsible for the rise. There is younger age of onset and fewer people reach targets. Prevention is the on ...MORE
This study aimed to observe 1,5-anhydroglucitol (AG) values and its corelation with HbA1c and oral OGTT values in subjects with normoglycemia, prediabetes and d ...MORE
This study aimed to determine the clinical biochemical characteristics of angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT1R) genetic variant associated with normoalbuminiric ...MORE
Saxagliptin has shown good efficacy among elderly patients. The safety with saxagliptin amongst elderly patients is as good as young patients; in fact hazard ra ...MORE
The present study investigated the relationship between eosinophils and insulin resistance. Since, eosinophil and monocyte derivatives have already been establi ...MORE
This study aimed to evaluate glycemic status, dysglycemia, insulin resistance and predisposition to hypogonadism of HIV-infected males. Dysglycemia, insulin res ...MORE
This study aimed to establish the incidence of vitamin B12 and vitamin D deficiency in urban South Indian population, and to evaluate the association of various ...MORE
What new features have been introduced in this year’s conference?Our special feature is India UK Innovative Session, where a 30 members team from UK is pa ...MORE
The prevalence of diabetes in India varies widely in different states from 4.3% in Bihar to 13.6% in Chandigarh. There is evidence of an epidemiological transit ...MORE
How is behavior a factor in causing diabetes?A very aggressive behavior or a Type A personality will naturally cause a surge of anti-insulin hormones and cause ...MORE
Prevalence rates of both generalized obesity and abdominal obesity are high in India. The prevalence of hypertension and dyslipidemia are also high. There is a ...MORE
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapy has been traditionally used to define medical practices and approaches that did not conform to the standard ...MORE
Cystatin-C is a marker of pre-clinical renal dysfunction.ICAM-1 (intercellular adhesion molecule-1) is a marker of pre-clinical coronary artery disease (CAD).Cy ...MORE
Weight gain is least with modern sulfonylurea (SU), glimepiride, when compared with other SUs. As compared to older SUs, glimepiride: Has lower risk of hypoglyc ...MORE
Patient factors: Suboptimal health literacy; lack of access to healthcare facilities: Poor socioeconomic status, culture and language capabilities, less awarene ...MORE
There are three nutritional issues related to protein nutrition and diabetes - Glycemic control, diabetes complications and energy balance. Protein stimulates i ...MORE
Many studies have investigated the association of comorbidities of mental illness with diabetes. The prevalence of depression in diabetics is about 3-4 times mo ...MORE
Forum for Injection Technique and Therapy Expert Recommendations (FITTER), India 2017: All injectable agents rely on the correct injection technique, hence appr ...MORE
Potential barriers to effective dose titration: Hypoglycemia or fear of hypoglycemia, psychological insulin resistance, perceived complexity of insulin dose tit ...MORE
Screening for diabetes mellitus is strongly recommended among patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART). Both fasting and postprandial glucose values should be u ...MORE
Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is a spectrum of disorders consisting of snoring, upper airway resistance syndrome, sleep apnea. Sleep apnea can be obstructive ...MORE
Teaching and learning leads to positive behavior change and better health outcome. Diabetes is a gigantic public health problem in India and the world. Compassi ...MORE
T2DM has been described as a new epidemic. Approximately 2 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes, and the number is predicted to increase by about 50% b ...MORE
The overall global prevalence of type 2 diabetes is rising steadily. Previously, type 2 diabetes was predominantly a disease of middle-aged and older people. In ...MORE
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is defined as macrovesicular steatosis in >5% of hepatocytes according to histological analysis or by proton density ...MORE
Structured SMBG is an integral part of diabetes care to ensure continuing success. Use of glucose meters has a role at every stage of diabetes, including predia ...MORE
Application of telemedicine in diabetes care is telediabetology. Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication to support healthcare from one side to another via ...MORE
Everyone in the healthcare industry knows what challenges we face - an aging population, more lifestyle-related ill health and growing constraints on budgets. T ...MORE
The insulin initiation of the T2DM patients can be done with basal insulin, premix insulin, basal plus. Most of the international standard guidelines recommend ...MORE
Patients with diabetes have higher incidence of morbidity and mortality. Poor perioperative glycemic control: ↑ risk of adverse outcomes. There is a strong ...MORE
Both diseases are common (frequently coexist like conjoined twins) and their prevalence is increasing worldwide. Both have some genetic component as their etiol ...MORE
The complex interaction between microbes and diabetes mellitus involves role of microbes in causation/initiation of disease, and once initiated-making the patie ...MORE
T2DM is increasing globally and the approach to diabetes has undergone a sea change in a very short span of time due to Position Statements issued by the EASD a ...MORE
Obesity is so linearly associated with diabetes that a causal relationship has traditionally been assumed. However, data analyzing the association of diabetes c ...MORE
What have we already learned: Efficacy similar to other OADs; efficacy in real life and in Indian patients; works in all stages of diabetes; promise of b-cell r ...MORE
Diabetic nephropathy (DN), one of the most serious microvascular complications, is a leading cause of ESRD worldwide. Despite multifactorial interventions such ...MORE
On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India, I thank you very much for your atte ...MORE
Kidney is one of the main organs affected by hyperglycemia.Microalbuminuria predicts progression of nephropathy, and also predicts CVD. Drug treatment of albumi ...MORE
Vitamin D toxicity is a rare but potentially serious and fatal condition.Generally, very high doses (nearly 50-100 times the normal dose) of vitamin D supp ...MORE
Diabetic hepatopathy can be defined as a microvascular complication of diabetes presenting with microangiopathy with hepatic sinusoidal fibrosis and basement me ...MORE
Document use of effective contraception. Continue contraception till HbA1c targets are met.Dietician consultation with individualized diet plan, educate about w ...MORE
CV and kidney disease are the biggest contributors to morbidity and mortality in patients with T2DM. Renal function decline is associated with increased risk of ...MORE
Autophagy in diabetes has recently been the focus of research and accumulating evidence has suggested a pathophysiological role for autophagy in diabetes.1 The ...MORE
Preventive measures against T2DM and associated CV complications should start during intrauterine period and continue throughout life from early childhood. GDM ...MORE
What is the role of circadian rhythm in the development of diabetes?Secretion of various hormones in our body follows biological clock of body which is set for ...MORE
Diabetes, a prevalent metabolic disease in India, increases the financial burden of patients considerably. The pillars of successfully setting up a diabetic cli ...MORE
An often neglected aspect of diabetes evaluation - foot and footwear assessment in diabetic patients with neuropathy. Although there are various methods for man ...MORE
Insulin sensitizers are efficacious in the management of PCOS patients. They can be used as first-line agents for obese PCOS patients with mild-to-moderate feat ...MORE
Insulin remains the cornerstone of treatment in type 1 diabetes, but most patients fail to achieve glycemic targets and experience periods of hyperglycemia as w ...MORE
Postprandial hypertriglyceridemia and insulin resistance (IR)/T2DM: High fat stores in ectopic compartments have been reported at the early stage of development ...MORE
Pay attention to the basic tenets of wound care. Nothing supplants the role of good basic wound care which are - adequate offloading, adequate debridement, mana ...MORE
Educating the diabetic patient regarding inclusion of optimal protein consumption within the recommended calorie intake is paramount.Recommendations for protein ...MORE
Six core elements of chronic care model: Moving from a reactive to a proactive care delivery system; self-management; decision support on evidence-based guideli ...MORE
Diabetic retinopathy is the most frequent cause of new cases of blindness among adults aged 20-74 years. Screening adults with diabetes should include an initia ...MORE
Definitions: Vitamin D [25(OH)D] deficiency <20 ng/ml; insufficiency 20-30 ng/ml; sufficiency >30 ng/ml. Normal 25(OH)D levels are important for fully nor ...MORE
GDM in pregnant women is an alarming health threat to mother as well as offspring. Both GDM and its progression to type 2 diabetes could be potentially prevente ...MORE
In routine clinical practice, healthcare personnel give little/no attention to education about foot care, until patients present with a foot ulcer. On the other ...MORE
PROBLEMS: For the Pregnant Mother: She has to get ready after caring for the needs of the family members and sometimes domestic animals. Distance and time to tr ...MORE
There is a high burden of diabetic enteropathy. Early recognition and treatment is the goal. There is a definite role of gut microbiota in pathogenesis of diabe ...MORE
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and maternal health are closely linked. NCDs such as diabetes, obesity and hypertension have significant adverse impact on mater ...MORE
Imaging of the bones is often done to assess their density. In nondiabetic subjects, denser the bone, lower the risk of future fractures. In subjects with diabe ...MORE
Pancreatogenic diabetes occurs as a result of benign and malignant diseases of the exocrine pancreas. It is classified as type 3c diabetes mellitus (T3cDM) acco ...MORE
India, like the developed nations, has moved from a high fertility-high mortality in the past century to a low fertility-low mortality state. Life expectancy ha ...MORE
Majority of the people affected with diabetes in India belong to lower socioeconomic background. They have no access to specialist care and they do not regularl ...MORE
Diabetes secondary to endocrinopathies is nearly 1%. This entity refers to occurrence of diabetes secondary to hormone overproduction leading to counter-regulat ...MORE
Natural history of T2DM reflects underlying loss of b-cell function. To prevent/delay the loss of b-cell function, current conservative approach may not be suff ...MORE
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) may play a crucial role in the increasing prevalence of diabetes and obesity. The common adverse outcomes in GDM are: Stillb ...MORE
STARCH study reveals that Indian diabetics consume diet rich in carbohydrates. Carbohydrate constitutes 64.1% of total energy from diet. PPG of 62.5% diabetic p ...MORE
Principally, metformin is being more accepted by Obstetricians and less by physicians for management of hyperglycemia in pregnancy. Insulin is the drug of choic ...MORE
Bionic pancreas is developed by Edward Damiano and Firas El-Khatib of Boston University/Massachusetts General Hospital. A system of integrated devices to substi ...MORE
Comorbid diabetes and depression is a serious public health concern. International recommendations for care are not always implemented at the local level. Evide ...MORE
Pancreatogenic diabetes, categorized as type 3c diabetes, arises as a result of exocrine disease to the pancreas. Most commonly identified cause of type 3c is c ...MORE
The glucocoper is a simple, easy to administer, patient- and professional-friendly instrument which helps in diagnosing and quantifying specific negative and po ...MORE
Diabetics usually ignore the lifestyle modifications because they don’t understand what to do and what not to do. A simple formula of lifestyle modificati ...MORE
Insulin resistance syndrome (IRS) is a heterogenous multiplex disorder with the underlying etiologies being genetics, environmental, lifestyle, inflammation and ...MORE
Rising trend of the dual disorders of diabetes and obesity has led to innovation of bariatric surgery to treat both these ailments at one go. Because of the cor ...MORE
Insulin should be initiated in type 2 diabetes sufficiently early, overcoming the commonly observed inertia. Insulin provides rest to the b cells, reduces infla ...MORE
This trial incorporated antidiabetic drug naive T2DM patients, with HbA1c ≥7%, aged 50 years and above with at least 1 CV co-existing condition or 60 years a ...MORE
Saroglitazar is a dual PPAR agonist, currently approved in India for the treatment of diabetic dyslipidemia (hypertriglyceridemia in type 2 diabetes). It improv ...MORE
The CANVAS Program integrated data from two trials.Inclusion criteria: Patients with type 2 diabetes - HbA1c ≥7.0% to ≤10.5%; eGFR ≥30 mL/min/1.73 m2; ...MORE
