Dear Colleagues:
On behalf of the Worldwide Initiative for Diabetes Education (WorldWIDE), my coeditor Dr Ralph DeFronzo, and faculty Professor Dr Stefano Del Prato, Professor Rury Holman, and Professor Allan Vaag, I am happy to announce a new WorldWIDE slide compendium entitled “New Perspectives on Pathophysiology and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes: Role of the Kidney.” This compendium can be found in the WorldWIDE slide resource section of the WorldWIDE website.
The slide set includes the latest available data on the following:
http://www.worldwidediabetes.org
· Epidemiology of Type 2 diabetes
· Relationship between hyperglycemia and microvascular and macrovascular complications
· Pathophysiology of Type 2 diabetes, including contributions from insulin resistance, beta-cell and alpha-cell dysfunction, incretin impairment, and impaired renal glucose reabsorption
· SGLT2 inhibition as a novel treatment approach for Type 2 diabetes, including the mechanism of action, efficacy, and safety of this class of drugs
I hope that this slide compendium will serve as a valuable reference to your practice.
This slide compendium can be accessed at the following link: http://www.worldwidediabetes.org and can be downloaded as a PowerPoint file to your computer.
We encourage you to forward this email to your colleagues to invite them to visit our website.
Kind regards,
Jaime A. Davidson, MD
President, WorldWIDE
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, Texas, USA