Diabetes 2012

Diabetes is fast becoming the 21st century’s major public health concern. NHS research has revealed that diabetes is causing 24,000 needless deaths a year in England alone and is costing the NHS £9 billion a year.
Diabetes 2012 assembles some of the most highly respected professionals in the fields of diabetes, endocrinology, obesity and general practice to discuss the current issues and challenges involved in managing diabetes and why it’s such a difficult disease to tackle.

Sessions will include:
• Delivering 5 star diabetes care, Dr Brian Karet, Bradford
• Pre-pregnancy care: who gets it and does it work?, Dr Helen Murphy, Cambridge
• New diagnosis criteria for diabetes, Professor Naveed Sattar, Glasgow
• Diabetes and depression, Professor Richard Holt, Southampton
• Clinical management and treatment of obesity, Professor Nicholas Finer, London
• Diabetes in people of South Asian origin, Dr Tahseen Chowdhury, London
• Advances in bariatric surgery as treatment, Mr James Byrne, Southampton
• Insulin resistance and secretion, Professor Guy Rutter, London
• Consequences and treatment of non alcoholic fatty liver disease, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, Professor Christopher Byrne, Southampton

Benefits of attending Diabetes 2012:

• Explore current issues and challenges involved in diabetes services across primary and secondary care
• Gain an understanding of ways of preventing, diagnosing and intervening early in type 1 and 2 diabetes
• Keep up to date with the latest developments in the treatment and management of hypoglycaemia and ways of monitoring blood glucose levels
• Examine a variety of diabetic complications including cardiovascular disease, diabetic nephropathy, depression and the diabetic foot and eye
• Assess risks and outcomes of managing and treating obesity and advances in bariatric surgery
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