618 Diabetes Update

There is an alarming increase of type-2 diabetes in this country. Although this was once termed “adult-onset” diabetes, it is being diagnosed at younger and younger ages. A new review of research demonstrates that type-2 diabetes can be prevented, or at least delayed, with either drugs or exercise and diet. What type of diet is best? What new treatments are available for diabetes? And how are complications managed? Guests: John B. Buse, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Endocrinology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine; President-elect, American Diabetes Association Peter Sheehan, MD, Director of the Diabetes Center of Greater New York; Senior Faculty of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine