Diabetes, Hypertension and Dyslipidemias

Understand the food classes, their contribution towards blood glucose, and the difference of metabolism during the day and the night.
Understand how lipids play a major role in insulin resistance and the mechanism behind it.
Learn how increased carbohydrates in the blood vessels and the interstitial tissue damages these structures leading to disastrous vascular, renal, and cardiac outcomes.
Understand why it is crucial to not only look at the carbohydrate levels but to also understand a patient's body habitus, genetics, daily stresses, eating habits, chronic diseases, hormone levels, and the psychological health to determine how to manage the blood sugar.
Understand the patient groups in light of ACC/AHA guidelines.
Study one of the most viewed lecture series on DrBeen, i.e. classification of diabetes mellitus and its management.
Understand the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. 
Learn the antibody changes indicating a progression to the type 1 diabetes mellitus and the pathology behind these markers.
Learn diabetic ketoacidosis, its diagnosis, and its management.
Learn various drug classes and their mechanisms for managing diabetes mellitus.
Learn the mechanism of actions of biguanides/sulfonylurease
Learn the side effects of these drug classes.
Learn the diabetes management algorithm to titrate various medications and to provide combination therapies with and without insulin.
Learn various classes of insulin, their mechanism of action, duration of action, the onset of action and their indications.
Learn how to calculate insulin dose for basal and bolus types.
Learn about the Somogay effect and the dawn phenomenon when testing for the blood sugar levels.

Dylipidemias
Learn how dyslipidemias occur. The food and its outcomes in terms of cholesterol. The mechanism of dyslipidemia in terms of genetics, vascular protein, and enzyme functions, and the diet.
Learn how dyslipidemias contribute to atherosclerosis, hypertension, cardiac events, and strokes.
Learn how to manage dyslipidemias and the various drug classes.
Learn the mechanism of action of statin drugs and their side effects.
Learn the mechanism of action of niacin, colestipol, ezetimibe, and gemfibrozil (fibrates)

Hypertension
Learn the classification of hypertension. And, the adjustment in levels with age.
Learn the pathophysiology of hypertension.
Learn the complications of unmanaged hypertension.
Learn how to manage hypertension and the clinical approach to take.