Study Guide: Diabetes Risks from Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs: Mechanisms and Approaches to Risk Reduction

This continuing education activity, Diabetes Risks from Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs: Mechanisms and Approaches to Risk Reduction, consists of a book of the same title by Sam Dagogo-Jack, MD, and this study guide. This CPE program is designed to provide you with useful knowledge regarding how medications and supplements can impact your patient’s health and risk for diabetes. It is also designed to help you earn 11 continuing education credits for dietetics (CDR CPEU).

Learning Objectives

After completing this activity, nutrition professionals will be better able to:

  1. Explain the classification, diagnostic criteria, and inherent and lifestyle risk factors for prediabetes, Type 1, and Type 2 diabetes.
  2. Evaluate antihypertensive medications for their potential to increase the risk for diabetes and discuss possible alternatives.
  3. Explain steroid therapy and its possible effects on blood glucose.
  4. Assess how lifestyle intervention programs can impact the risk for progression from prediabetes to diabetes.
  5. Explain the diabetes-related dangers of recreational drugs and their impact on blood glucose.

Additional Information

CDR Activity Type: 
102
CPE Level: 
2
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 11.00 CDR
Course opens: 
05/16/2024
Course expires: 
05/15/2027
Cost:
$120.95
Rating: 
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Susan Burke March, MSEd, has made her personal passion for healthy living and smart weight management her vocation. For more than 30 years, she was a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Diabetes Educator, now retired. Susan holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in nutrition and education from Queens College, City University of New York, and advanced certificates of training in Adult Weight Management (Levels 1 and 2) and Childhood and Adolescent Weight Management. She served as Chief Clinical Nutrition Manager at Mt. Sinai Hospital of Queens, New York. 

Susan is the former Vice President of Nutrition and Chief Nutritionist for eDiets.com, an online weight management program leader. She led the nutritional development of a roster of healthy weight programs and spearheaded the development of unprecedented features and services today commonplace in the industry. Susan served on the board of the Weight Management Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and as a spokesperson for the Florida Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 

She currently lives in Valencia, Spain, where she volunteers as the Country Representative to Spain for the International Affiliate of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (IAAND) and serves on the board of the International Women’s Club Valencia.

Disclosures:

Susan Burke March, MSEd, faculty for this activity, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

The planners for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company (publisher of Wolf Rinke Associates) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).

RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.

Available Credit

  • 11.00 CDR

Price

Cost:
$120.95
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