Diabetes Core Update April 2025

Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 25 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals.

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.

Welcome to diabetes core update where every month we go over the most important articles to come out in the field of diabetes. Articles that are important for practicing clinicians to understand to stay up with the rapid changes in the field. 

This issue will review:

1.    Coronary Artery Calcium-Guided Primary Prevention Strategy

2.    Health-Related Quality of Life and Health Utility after Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery vs. Medical/Lifestyle Intervention in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity

3.    Suicide and suicide attempt in users of GLP-1 receptor agonists: a nationwide case-time-control study

4.    Self-Monitored Blood Glucose and Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Youth with Type 1 Diabetes and Medicaid Insurance

5.     Gestational Diabetes to Type 2 Diabetes—Is Poor Sleep to Blame?

 

For more information about each of ADA’s science and medical journals, please visit Diabetesjournals.org.

Hosts:

Neil Skolnik, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Jefferson Health

John J. Russell, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Chair-Department of Family Medicine, Abington Jefferson Health