Current Trends in Diabetes

Viswanathan Mohan MD PhD DSc FRCP FNA FACE FTWAS MACPPrincipal Investigator, President and Chief of Diabetes Research, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chairman and Chief Diabetologist, Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaMA Shekar MD FRCPDirector, 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, IndiaGundu HR Rao PhDEmeritus Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Lillehei Heart Institute, Institute of Engineering Medicine, University of Minnesota, USA

• SECTION 1: DIAGNOSIS & CLASSIFICATIONClassification of diabetesDiagnosis of diabetes – a reality check?Pancreatic diabetes SECTION 2: EPIDEMIOLOGYManagement of diabetes epidemic: Global perspectiveGlobal epidemic of type 2 diabetes: An epidemiologist’s perspectiveLifestyle factors in the epidemic of Type 2 diabetesReversal of diabetes and lifestyle disorders: the basis, effectiveness and evidenceDiabetes in Manitoba – a plan to address the epidemic SECTION 3: ETIOPATHOGENESISHyperglycemia in Pregnancy – New clinical paradigmsDiabetes in South Asia: Epidemiology, determinants, clinical management and public health implicationsThe lifespan from obesity to adiposity to adiposopathyEssential fatty acids and their metabolites in diabetes mellitusFetal origins of adult disease in south Asians – in utero disturbances and metabolic diseasesEpigenetics of diabetes complicationsGenomics of Type 2 diabetes mellitus and monogenic forms of diabete SECTION 4: CO-MORBIDITIES AND COMPLICATIONS OF DIABETESDiabetic dyslipidemiaManaging hyperglycaemia in diabetic kidney diseaseHyperglycaemia & hypoglycaemia in the long term care of elderly diabetesHeart failure and diabetes mellitusCardiovascular autonomic neuropathyRecent advances in management of diabetes foot ulcersClinical advances in diabetic retinopathyDiabetic ketoacidosis in children and adolescents SECTION 5: RECENT ADVANCES AND TECHNOLOGIESGestational diabetes mellitus – screening, diagnosis and managementDiabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease – The connectionDiagnosis of early risks, management of risks and reduction of vascular diseasesRecent trends in diabetes technologiesMedical devices made in India and diagnostic platforms validated for the management of cardiometabolic risksTM-Flow system: A valid solution to inverse: The growing trend of diabetes and associated vascular disease SECTION 6: SPECIAL ISSUES IN DIABETESPrecision medicine in diabetes: What, when and where?Contribution of SASAT for our understanding of cardiometabolic disease in south AsiansContributions from diabetes unit, KEM Hospital to diabetes research in IndiaEarly origins of non-communicable disease: Perspectives from Mysore cohortsNew-biology Frontiers in diabetes research with special reference to MicroRNAomics, Metabolomics, and Metagenomics