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Clinical News

Clinical Action Briefs
SGLT2 Inhibitors in Type 2 Diabetes:
Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes
Recent outcomes trials have shown that sodium-glucose
cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors can help patients with
type 2 diabetes lower their glucose levels while also
lessening their risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular
disease, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease. In a
special three-episode podcast series, Diabetes Core
Update explores these trials in detail, with a focus on
the beneficial effects of SGLT2 inhibitors. Cohosts Drs.
Neil Skolnik and John Russell of Abington Memorial
Hospital and the Temple University School of Medicine
discuss how the dramatic results of these trials provide
evidence to support a new person-centered approach to
the management of type 2 diabetes, an updated set of
outcomes-based diabetes treatment guidelines, and a
wealth of newfound information that can be incorporated
in everyday clinical practice. Diabetes Core Update is
a free, monthly podcast discussing the latest clinically
relevant articles from Diabetes Care, Diabetes, Clinical
Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Listen or subscribe on
Apple Podcasts or GooglePlay.

Diabetes and COVID-19 Article Collections
The ADA's four journals cover breaking research on
diabetes research, treatment, and education and the
effect of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Articles on diabetes and COVID-19 are continually

added to freely accessible collections available on the
diabetesjournals.org website. The most recent articles
include obesity and COVID-19 in adults with diabetes
(https://doi.org/10.2337/db20-0671), associations
between dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitors and COVID-19
outcomes in type 2 diabetes (https://doi.org/10.2337/
dc20-1824), implementing a pediatric diabetes clinic
via telehealth (https://doi.org/10.2337/ds20-0060), and
isolation and education during a pandemic for new-onset
type 1 diabetes and concomitant COVID-19 (https://doi.
org/10.2337/cd20-0044), among others.

Podcast Focuses on Diabetes Technology
In a special podcast released this February, Diabetes Core
Update: Diabetes Technology, three diabetes experts
discuss the potential for improvement in the care of people
with diabetes enabled with the use of diabetes technology.
The articles discussed in the episode appear in a Clinical
Diabetes special issue titled " Diabetes Technology in
Primary Care " that reviews several types of diabetes
technology, including blood glucose meters, continuous
glucose monitoring systems, smartphone apps, and
automated insulin delivery systems. Although such
technologies represent great strides in diabetes care, they
also present new challenges to overcome. This special
edition of Diabetes Core Update, the podcast discussing
the latest research published in the ADA's four scholarly
journals, is supported by unrestricted educational grants
to the ADA from Abbott Diabetes Care and Dexcom.

DID YOU KNOW?
Patient Education Library
Access more than 170 free
downloadable or printable patient
handouts on the American Diabetes
Assocation's patient education library.
Materials are available in Arabic,
Chinese, English, French, Haitian Creole,
Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish,
Tagalog, and Vietnamese.

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