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Podcast: Mayo Clinic Talks
Episode: Inflammation and Cardiometabolic Disease Edition: Type 2 Diabetes as an Inflammatory Disease
Description: Host: Darryl S. Chutka, M.D. [@chutkaMD]
Guest: Vinaya Simha, M.B.B.S., M.D.
Type 2 Diabetes is a commonly seen condition in a general medical practice. It’s estimated that over 38 million adults have the disease. When we think of diabetes, we think of a metabolic condition with patients who have hyperglycemia, often overweight, and occasionally have renal, eye and/or neurologic complications. But, do we ever think of diabetes as an inflammatory disease? How is inflammation associated with diabetes? What are the mediators of inflammation in diabetics and when we treat diabetes, ar...