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And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk, episode 110. I'm your co-host, Dr. Cain.

I'm Dr. Battal. Today we have Dr. Shravastva back on Helix Talk.

And today we're actually talking about diabetes, which is a topic near and dear to your heart.

So we thought that it would be great for you to join us today. Thank you. I'm so very excited to be here.

Thank you for joining us. And introducing the topic, it's the top 10 updated recommendations

from the ADA Standards of Care

2020. As we know, the American Diabetes Association called ADA updates their guidelines,

standards of care every year. So you hear from us, we once again, on what's the latest and

the greatest in the world of diabetes. And we are getting more sophisticated.

There is an app for everything.

So there is an app for the standards of care too in case you want to have these recommendations

on your palm.

And the document that is the Bible of ADA, it's actually a living document.

So if you downloaded a PDF on your computer, there might be some updates occurring as we speak during the year on their linked version at the ADA website.

And I absolutely love that.

When I first found out that it was a living document, I did a little happy dance, and it's because we know that evidence comes out throughout the year, and it doesn't always align. And luckily, the standards of care come out every year, but not all the guidelines are like

that. And so to get updated to be like, okay, what are the experts going to say about this new evidence

and we don't have to wait the next year to find out they often will go ahead and put that information

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