GETTYSBURG PA – Diabetes educators and related experts from across Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia have gathered Sunday through Tuesday (May 7-9, 2023) at the historic Gettysburg Hotel to learn about latest teaching and treatment methods for the chronic disease.
Practitioners from Montgomery, Berks, and Chester counties, and the greater Philadelphia region, are among those attending. They represent networked groups from southeastern Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Valley, Delaware, and five other regions.
The National Centers for Disease Control reports diabetes is the eighth-leading cause of death in the United States. More than 37 million U.S. adults have the disease, it adds, and it also indicates that 1-in 5-people don’t know they are affected.
Members of the national Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists from across the involved states are spending conference days in sessions that in part, according to their schedule, cover:
- Advances in treatment of childhood obesity with diabetes;
- Strategies to eliminate barriers hindering the use of mobile apps and other technologies that could provide diabetes care to more people;
- Working with those affected by diabetes and kidney disease;
- The management of diabetes during pregnancy, known as “gestational diabetes;” and
- The care of older adults living with diabetes.
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