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Welcome to Helix Talk episode 94. I'm your co-host, Dr. Kane. I'm Dr. Schumann and

welcoming back. Dr. Patel, glad to be back.

Glad to have you back.

Yeah, looking forward to it.

Thank you.

Excitingly coming back, we're going to talk about the updates in the 2019 standards of diabetes care.

And we're going to call this a sweet, sweet taste of annually updated guidelines. And we're going to discuss the 2019 standards of care updates as well as

published in 2018 October, ADA and ESD a consensus statement, which 2019 standards of care

kind of has women in their recommendations already. And I will say part of this title comes

as a slight dig to some of those other guidelines out there that aren't as frequently

updated. I'm looking at you, stress also prophylaxis 1999 guidelines, but it's great, again,

that the diabetes guidelines, in addition to COPD and the Gina Asthma Guidelines, annual updates.

It's a really big deal, and these organizations should be really commended for their hard work.

Yes, sweet and gold. We can't get better than that. So what are some of the areas that we want to start with

Dr. Patel in terms of what is new with the 2019 update? You know, there are a lot of updates provided

in this particular guideline, but with the time frame in mind for this recording, we're going to

focus on some of the important ones and kind of getting started quickly, you know, when you're

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