{"id":5587,"date":"2022-01-13T10:33:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T10:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2022-01-13T10:33:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T10:33:55","slug":"diabetes-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/diabetes-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8221;<strong>A Research and Clinical Update on Metformin in Diabetes Management &#8212; Expanding Benefits<\/strong>&#8221;.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The meeting was for diabetes specialist doctors from Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. 110 doctors signed in for 90 minute seminar which consisted of lectures followed by an interactive question and answer session.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Topics included prediabetes, new thoughts on management of heart and renal failure in type 2 diabetes, the potential benefits of metformin in diabetes patients with COVID-19, and an\u202f update of ongoing trials with metformin in both dementia and aging. Professor Campbell and his colleague from Amersham, Dr Harry Howlett, each gave two lectures and then answered the many questions from the participating diabetologists.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This is the second seminar in the past year for Middle East diabetes specialists led by Professor Campbell on behalf of the Medical School. The meetings were supported by an educational grant from Merck Serono Middle East.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5162 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/11\/Logo_-002-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;A Research and Clinical Update on Metformin in Diabetes Management &#8212; Expanding Benefits&#8221;.\u00a0 The meeting was for diabetes specialist doctors from Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. 110 doctors signed in for 90 minute seminar which consisted of lectures followed by an interactive question and answer session.\u00a0 \u00a0 Topics included prediabetes, new thoughts on management of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":5162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[261,724,910],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-diabetes","tag-merck","tag-prof-ian-campbell"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 10:06:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}