Diabetes Core Update January 2025

Diabetes Core Update

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. Results from a Randomized Trial of Intensive Glucose Management Using CGM Versus Usual Care in Hospitalized Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: the “TIGHT” Study

2. Tirzepatide for Obesity Treatment and Diabetes Prevention

3. Intensive Blood-Pressure Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

4. Association of Insulin Resistance With Radiographic Lung Abnormalities and Incident Lung Disease

5. Association Life-course Associations between Ambient Fine Particulate Matter and the Prevalence of Prediabetes and Diabetes

6. Semaglutide in Persons with Obesity and Knee Osteoarthritis

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