Diabetes Core Update – May 2025

Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 25 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals.

Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update   discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatment setting.

Welcome to diabetes core update where every month we go over the most important articles to come out in the field of diabetes. Articles that are important for practicing clinicians to understand to stay up with the rapid changes in the field. 

This issue will review:

1.     Lepodisiran — A Long-Duration Small Interfering RNA Targeting Lipoprotein(a) - NEJM

2.     Diabetes and Anemia – Diabetes Care

3.     Efficacy and Safety of Finerenone in Type 2 Diabetes: A Pooled Analysis of Trials – Diabetes Care

4.     Cardiovascular and Kidney Outcomes and Mortality With Long- Acting Injectable and Oral Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Trials – Diabetes Care

5.     Oral Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in High-Risk Type 2 Diabetes - NEJM

 

For more information about each of ADA’s science and medical journals, please visit Diabetesjournals.org.

Hosts:

Neil Skolnik, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Jefferson Health

John J. Russell, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Chair-Department of Family Medicine, Abington Jefferson Health