The Dual Struggle of Obesity and Diabetes
Anne L. Peters, MD, CDE: Hi. My name is Dr. Anne Peters, from the University of Southern California, and today I am going to talk about the treatment of obesity in type 2 diabetes. This is going to be a special video because part of it will include a patient of mine named Marde, discussing her own struggle with obesity in the setting of type 2 diabetes.
The reason for this topic is because I was asked to give a talk on this subject at the American Diabetes Association postgraduate course. That required me to go through all of the literature in this field and make up my own mind as to what I thought the best approach should be. It's not really a headline, but the key, obviously, is to change a person's lifestyle. We can try to do that in a variety of different ways. We can use medications or bariatric surgerywe have all sorts of approaches. But from my perspective -- and as you are going to hear from Marde -- you can really overeat anything if you put your mind to it and you haven't really changed your habits.
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Getting to 'A-ha!' With Obese Patients
Anne L. Peters, MD, CDE
DisclosuresApril 21, 2014
The Dual Struggle of Obesity and Diabetes
Anne L. Peters, MD, CDE: Hi. My name is Dr. Anne Peters, from the University of Southern California, and today I am going to talk about the treatment of obesity in type 2 diabetes. This is going to be a special video because part of it will include a patient of mine named Marde, discussing her own struggle with obesity in the setting of type 2 diabetes.
The reason for this topic is because I was asked to give a talk on this subject at the American Diabetes Association postgraduate course. That required me to go through all of the literature in this field and make up my own mind as to what I thought the best approach should be. It's not really a headline, but the key, obviously, is to change a person's lifestyle. We can try to do that in a variety of different ways. We can use medications or bariatric surgerywe have all sorts of approaches. But from my perspective -- and as you are going to hear from Marde -- you can really overeat anything if you put your mind to it and you haven't really changed your habits.
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Anne L. Peters, MD, CDE
Professor of Clinical Medicine; Director, Clinical Diabetes Programs, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Disclosure: Anne L. Peters, MD, CDE, has disclosed the following financial relationships:
Served as director, officer, partner, employee, advisor, consultant, or trustee for: (current consultant): Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Eli Lilly and Company; Novo Nordisk.
Served as a speaker or member of a speakers bureau for: (current speakers bureau member): Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Eli Lilly and Company; Novo Nordisk; Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc.
Served as a consultant or ad hoc speaker/consultant for: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP; Abbott Laboratories; Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; Dexcom; Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc.; Roche; sanofi-aventis