This week’s topics include diagnosing diabetes, treatment of heart disease in people with diabetes, managing nausea in pregnancy, and lipoprotein A.

Program notes:
0:25 Hemoglobin A1c for diagnosing diabetes
1:20 Measure over a long period of time
2:20 Patients should expect to have this test done
2:36 Treatment of blood flow to heart in diabetes
3:20 Angiogram demonstrated a blockage
4:15 Those with most extensive disease did better
5:12 Lipoprotein A
6:15 Measurement really isn’t necessary
7:02 Management of nausea in pregnancy
8:10 Probably more effective
9:05 End

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