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Professional Education New! Free CME/CE Opportunity: Self-Assessment Program on Exercise and Diabetes ■ T his self-assessment program consists of clinical problemsolving multiple choice questions and educational critiques. It is designed to objectively assess and strengthen your knowledge of diabetes and provide you with a better understanding of the relationship between exercise and diabetes. Credit is available for all health care professionals. At the end of this activity, the participants should be able to: ■ Assess differences in the physiology of exercise for individuals with varying types of diabetes (e.g., type 1, type 2, and gestational). ■ ■ ■ Identify the nuances of different types of physical activity, including daily movement, aerobic training, resistance training, combined training, and other activities. List the current exercise recommendations for various populations, such as children and adolescents, adults, and older adults. Create an effective and safe exercise prescription for individuals with diabetes of varying ages and with different health considerations, including obesity and aging. Discuss how to provide assistance or guidance to individuals in the management of blood glucose levels in relation to all exercise and physical activity. ■ ■ ■ List the effects of alterations in blood glucose control (hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia) on exercise responses and any requisite precautions. Indicate the macrovascular and microvascular complications of diabetes, such as heart disease, retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy, and precautions for exercise. Utilize the principles of guided behavior change to assist individuals in making long-term changes to their physical activity participation. Earn up to 5 continuing education credits. Visit profes sional.diabetes.org/ce to participate free of charge today! continued on page 10 Personalizing Patient Goals and Care in Type 2 Diabetes: One Size Does Not Fit All The American Diabetes Association and the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease ( iDOC ) present two new, online continuing education programs for primary care providers that address individualized practical approaches to managing obesity in type 2 diabetes using a risk-based decision making approach. New in January 2013: Shared Decision-Making for Clinical Success in the Obese Person with Type 2 Diabetes Clinical Shared Decision-Making with the Obese Person with Type 2 Diabetes and a BMI >35 Also in this Series: Personalized Health Risk Management and Therapeutic Decision-Making in Type 2 Diabetes Successfully Implementing Personalized Decision-Making in Type 2 Diabetes Practical Opinions: Personalizing Patient Treatment Goals and Care Management a Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes Patient Earn up to 5.5 continuing education credits. Visit professional.diabetes.org/ce to participate today! Professional Section Quarterly Practical Opinions: Personalizing Patient Treatment Goals and Care Management in an Older Patient with Established Type 2 Diabetes 9 http://professional.diabetes.org/ce http://professional.diabetes.org/ce http://professional.diabetes.org/ce http://professional.diabetes.org/ce

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Professional Section Quarterly - Spring 2013

Professional Section Quarterly - Spring 2013
Contents
ADA Names New Senior Vice President
73rd Scientific Sessions News
New CE/CME Self-Assessment Program
Grant Opportunity Announcements

Professional Section Quarterly - Spring 2013