Obesity and diabetes

• Importance of body weight control on metabolic deterioration of type 2 diabetes
• Comparison between several antihyperglycemic treatments: strategies to minimize weight gain in type 2 diabetes
• Anti-obesity drugs in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus
• Indications for bariatric surgery in type 2 diabetic subjects

  Anticoagulation and antiaggregation in diabetes

• Indications for anticoagulation in patients with diabetes
• Oral anticoagulant treatment: initiation, adjustment and use precautions
• Indications for the use of low molecular weight heparins in patients with diabetes
• Use of antiaggregants in diabetes

  Diabetes in Latinoamerica

• Epidemiology of diabetes in Costa Rica
• Epidemiology of diabetes in Colombia
• Epidemiology of diabetes in Argentina

  Update in cardiology and diabetes

• The diagnosis of obesity is infraestimated by body mass index and abdominal circumference in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

  Chronic kidney disease in diabetes

• Induced changes by chronic kidney disease in patients with diabetes
• Peritoneal dialysis in diabetic patients: indications, advantages and possible complications
• Haemodialysis in diabetic patients: indications, advantages and possible complications
• Kidney transplantation or simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplantation in diabetic patients: indications, advantages and possible complications

  The elderly diabetic patient

• Differential aspects of nutrition in the elderly diabetic patient
• Selection of the most appropiate oral agent in monotherapy or in combination in the elderly patient with diabetes
• Practical aspects of insulinization in the elderly patient with diabetes
• Management of the elderly patient with diabetes in long term geriatric facilities

  Cerebrovascular disease in diabetes

• Epidemiology of stroke in patients with diabetes
• Transient ischemic attack and risk of stroke in patients with diabetes: prevention and treatment
• Recommendations for an adequate glycemic control during hospitalization after a stroke episode
• Initiation of the most appropriate post-stroke rehabilitation

  Bibliometry thechniques

• Quality analysis of scientific literature: impact factor
• Techniques to perform a bibliography research
• How to perform a systematic review and/or a meta-analysis?
• The Cochrane Metabolic and Endocrine Disorders Review Group and its possible impact on the Spanish Society of Diabetes

  

• Evaluation of the most frequent functional respiratory tests. Forced spirometry
• Interpretation of a polysomnographic record
• Obesity and sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome
• Changes of respiratory function with diabetes and/or with the aging process

  Hypoglycemia

• Hypoglycemias in type 1 and 2 diabetes
• Hypoglycemia unawareness syndrome. Risk factors and treatment
• Postprandial reactive hypoglycemia: myth or reality?
• Insulinoma. Diagnostic criteria and treatment

  Management of hypertension in diabetes

• Blood pressure targets in various clinical situations in diabetic patients
• Treatment algorithm of high blood pressure in type 2 diabetes
• Potential advantages of aliskiren, the first renin inhibitor

  Prediabetes

• Epidemiology of prediabetes in Spain
• Main differences between impaired fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance
• Prevention of type 2 diabetes based on nutritional therapy and/or increase of physical activity
• Pharmacologic interventions to prevent type 2 diabetes

  Update in cardiology and diabetes

• Postprandial glycemia and glycemic variability: new targets to achieve optimal glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes

  Cell therapy techniques in diabetes

• Glycemic control in critically ill patients. Considerations about NICE_SUGAR study

  Update in cardiology and diabetes

• Imaging techniques in diagnosis and management of patients with diabetes
• Diagnostic techniques for ischemic heart disease in diabetic patients: indications and diagnostic algorithm
• Myocardial revascularization in diabetic patients: current state and future perspectives
• Management of diabetic patient with heart failure

  Therapeutic advances in patients with diabetic nephropathy and renal insufficiency

• Diabetic nephropathy and its monitorization
• Prevention of the progression of diabetic nephropathy
• Differential aspects in management of diabetic patient with renal insufficiency under peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis
• Indications and clinical evaluation of diabetic patient candidates to kidney transplantation alone or simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplantation

  Assessment of insulin sensitivity in research and clinical practice

• Homeostatic Model Assessment (HOMA). Practical considerations
• Methods for the determination of insulin sensitivity based on an oral glucose tolerance test
• Euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp
• Minimal model

  Outstanding gynecological issues in diabetic women

• Contraception in diabetic women
• Diabetic mastopathy: diagnosis and treatment
• Menopause in women with diabetes: diagnostic and treatment approach
• Osteopenia and osteoporosis in women with diabetes: recommendations for diagnostic and treatment

  Cell therapy techniques in diabetes

• Protocols to differentiate embryonic stem cells into insulin-producing cells
• Isolation, culture and characterization of mesenchymal stem cells from adipose tissue
• Reprogramming adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stem cells into insulin-producing cells

  Therapeutic advances in ophthalmology

• Usefulness of antiangiogenic therapy in diabetic retinopathy
• Laser treatment in diabetic retinopathy
• Diabetes and glaucoma: diagnostic approach and therapeutic algorithm

  Genetic engineering and molecular biology techniques applied to medicine

• How to design a genetic study? DNA and RNA extraction
• Techniques for the study of DNA and RNA. Introduction to the study of proteins
• Types of mutations and polymorphisms. Potential applications in genetic therapy for diabetes
• Animal models in diabetes research

  Monogenic Diabetes

• Monogenic diabetes: diagnosis and clinical characteristics
• Monogenic diabetes during the neonatal period and in the pediatric patient
• Monogenic hyperinsulinism
• Monogenic diabetes and pregnancy

  Integral management in children with diabetes

• Diabetes education for the child with diabetes and the family: practical aspects
• Insulin therapy before and after puberty in children with diabetes
• Treatment with continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion in infants and toddlers
• Continuous glucose monitoring in children with type 1 diabetes: indications and clinical application of the results

  Autoimmune diseases associated to diabetes

• Thyroid dysfunction and diabetes mellitus
• Addison’s disease and diabetes
• Celiac disease and diabetes
• Autoimmune skin diseases and diabetes

  Psychological disorders and diabetes

• Psychological assessment of patients with diabetes mellitus
• Lack of acceptance of diabetes: a diagnostic and therapeutic approach
• Psychological problems in diabetic patients during adolescence
• Depression and diabetes

  Physical exercise and diabetes

• Benefits of exercise in patients with diabetes
• Medical and physical condition evaluation before beginning of exercise
• Prescription and type of exercise recommended for patients with diabetes
• Practical recommendations for adjustments in insulin therapy in relation to physical exercise

  Diagnostic and therapeutic approach of patients with diabetic foot

• Clinical assessment of risk in diabetic foot
• Exploration techniques of sensibility in foot pathology
• Dynamic study of foot pressure: a pedographic analysis
• NMR usefulness in the diabetic foot

  Diagnostic and management of gestational diabetes

• Diet therapy and ambulatory capillary blood glucose monitoring
• Insulin treatment in gestational diabetes: when and how
• Postpartum evaluation of gestational diabetes mellitus. Recommendations for prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus

  Insulin therapy in inpatients

• Management of glucocorticoid-induced hyperglycemia
• Practical insulin management of the diabetic patient in the hospital setting
• Insulin therapy in the diabetic patient receiving enteral or parenteral nutrition
• Inpatient glucose management in medical and surgical ICUs

  Methods-counting carbohydrate portions

• Medical nutrition therapy in type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Overview
• Training of the patient and his or her family in carbohydrate counting
• Calculation of insulin doses according to the carbohydrate content of the meal
• Benefits of carbohydrate counting in combination with intensive insulin therapy

  Therapy with continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) (I)

• Indications and candidate selection for CSII
• Therapy with continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII): individualized calculation of bolus and basal rate
• Therapy with continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion in the pediatric age
• Practical recommendations for every-day life with continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII): Usefulness of capillary blood ketone test.

  Therapy with continuous subcutaneous insulin (II)

• CSII in pregnancy with pregestational diabetes
• Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion and type 2 diabetes
• Temporal disconnection from an insulin pump
• Optimization of the CSII therapy using the continuous glucose monitoring systems

  Técnicas diagnósticas en diabetes (I)

• Ambulatory HbA1c determination
• Nonmydriatic retinal camera
• Ankle-brachial index for peripheral vascular disease assessment

  Técnicas diagnósticas en diabetes (II)

• Methodological approaches for diagnosis and follow-up of the cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy in patients with diabetes
• Benefits of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring at initial evaluation and in the follow-up of patients with diabetes
• Indications for carotid and transcranial artery echo-Doppler examination in patients with diabetes
• Assessment of endothelial dysfunction in patients with diabetes
• Diagnostic methods in the detection of coronary artery disease in diabetic patients

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