American Diabetes Association meeting report

American Diabetes Association meeting report

Since its conception in 1940 the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has been chairing an annual conference, which has become one of the key international forums for sharing knowledge and disseminating new research into Diabetes mellitus. June 2016 saw the ADA’s 76th Scientific Sessions, this year held in New Orleans, USA. More than 15,000 clinicians, health care professionals and scientists in...

Meeting American Diabetes Association guidelines in endocrinologist practice.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether American Diabetes Association (ADA) guidelines can be met in the context of routine endocrinology practice. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Charts were reviewed for a group of patients who were examined in 1998, followed for > or = 1 year, and had two or more visits during that year. Process measures and metabolic outcomes were studied for patients with type 2 diabe...

Association of American Medical Colleges annual meeting and annual report.

Meeting report: American Aging Association 40th Annual Meeting, Raleigh, North Carolina, June 3-6, 2011.

The focus of the 2011 American Aging Association meeting was emerging concepts in the mechanisms of aging. Many of the usual topics in aging were covered, such as dietary restriction (DR), inflammation, stress resistance, homeostasis and proteasome activity, sarcopenia, and neural degeneration. There was also discussion of newer methods, such as microRNAs and genome sequencing, that have been e...

Are we meeting the American Diabetes Association goals for HIV-infected patients with diabetes mellitus?

We determined rates of achieving the American Diabetes Association goals among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected diabetic patients. American Diabetes Association goals (for hemoglobin A1c, blood pressure, and lipid levels) were defined by 2008 American Diabetes Association guidelines. HIV-infected diabetic patients achieved American Diabetes Association goals at rates similar to those...