Current Trends in Diabetes

Viswanathan Mohan MD PhD DSc FRCP FNA FACE FTWAS MACP Principal Investigator, President and Chief of Diabetes Research, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chairman and Chief Diabetologist, Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India MA Shekar MD FRCP Director, Chowdaiah Medical Centre and Apoorva Diabetes Foundation, Mysuru; Former-Director, Karnataka Institute of Endocrinology and Research, Bengaluru; Former-Professor of Medicine and Head (I/C), Department of Endocrinology, Mysore Medical College and Research Institute, Mysuru, Karnataka, India Gundu HR Rao PhD Emeritus Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Lillehei Heart Institute, Institute of Engineering Medicine, University of Minnesota, USA

SECTION 1: DIAGNOSIS & CLASSIFICATION





Classification of diabetes
Diagnosis of diabetes – a reality check?
Pancreatic diabetes


 



SECTION 2: EPIDEMIOLOGY





Management of diabetes epidemic: Global perspective
Global epidemic of type 2 diabetes: An epidemiologist’s perspective
Lifestyle factors in the epidemic of Type 2 diabetes
Reversal of diabetes and lifestyle disorders: the basis, effectiveness and evidence
Diabetes in Manitoba – a plan to address the epidemic


 



SECTION 3: ETIOPATHOGENESIS





Hyperglycemia in Pregnancy – New clinical paradigms

Diabetes in South Asia: Epidemiology, determinants, clinical management and public health implications
The lifespan from obesity to adiposity to adiposopathy
Essential fatty acids and their metabolites in diabetes mellitus
Fetal origins of adult disease in south Asians – in utero disturbances and metabolic diseases
Epigenetics of diabetes complications
Genomics of Type 2 diabetes mellitus and monogenic forms of diabete


 



SECTION 4: CO-MORBIDITIES AND COMPLICATIONS OF DIABETES





Diabetic dyslipidemia
Managing hyperglycaemia in diabetic kidney disease
Hyperglycaemia & hypoglycaemia in the long term care of elderly diabetes
Heart failure and diabetes mellitus
Cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy
Recent advances in management of diabetes foot ulcers
Clinical advances in diabetic retinopathy
Diabetic ketoacidosis in children and adolescents


 



SECTION 5: RECENT ADVANCES AND TECHNOLOGIES





Gestational diabetes mellitus – screening, diagnosis and management
Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease – The connection
Diagnosis of early risks, management of risks and reduction of vascular diseases
Recent trends in diabetes technologies
Medical devices made in India and diagnostic platforms validated for the management of cardiometabolic risks
TM-Flow system: A valid solution to inverse: The growing trend of diabetes and associated vascular disease


 



SECTION 6: SPECIAL ISSUES IN DIABETES





Precision medicine in diabetes: What, when and where?
Contribution of SASAT for our understanding of cardiometabolic disease in south Asians
Contributions from diabetes unit, KEM Hospital to diabetes research in India
Early origins of non-communicable disease: Perspectives from Mysore cohorts
New-biology Frontiers in diabetes research with special reference to MicroRNAomics, Metabolomics, and Metagenomics