5th Annual Diabetes and the Heart: Prevention and Management of Diabetes and its Cardiovascular Complications

Attend this CME certified activity to learn how to recognize the important relationship between diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Features include state of the science discussions of current and future treatment approaches to help reduce complications of diabetes and prevent adverse cardiovascular events. Discover treatment strategies of diabetics to improve cardiac and vascular outcomes as well as differences in therapy required in diabetics who have heart disease.

Topics include the impact of bariatric surgery in management of diabetes, best diet and exercise interventions, implications of clinical trials including ACCORD and LOOK AHEAD, current recommendations for management of hospitalized patients with diabetes. Learn about current guidelines for hypertension and peripheral arterial disease management, the controversy over cardiovascular effects of weight loss drugs, why focusing on the gut may help reduce cardiovascular disease and what's new and lipid management.