{"id":199206,"date":"2023-05-16T16:26:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T20:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=199206"},"modified":"2023-05-16T16:26:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T20:26:05","slug":"podcast-education-as-a-diabetes-management-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/05\/podcast-education-as-a-diabetes-management-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Education as a Diabetes Management Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Education and awareness play a significant role in managing diabetes. We&#8217;re getting better at recognizing prediabetes, which can change the patient&#8217;s trajectory, prolonging or even avoiding the onset of type 2 diabetes. But when the diagnosis is made, <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/diabetes\/diabetes-self-management-education-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UConn Health&#8217;s Diabetes Self-Management Education Program<\/a> can have a major impact on the patient&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>Nurse practitioner Luriza Glynn, the program&#8217;s coordinator, and Drs. <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/Luthra-Pooja\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pooja Luthra<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/find-a-provider\/physician\/Madhavan-Parvathy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Parvathy Madhavan<\/a>, UConn Health endocrinologists, discuss the importance of recognizing early signs of diabetes and managing it once diagnosed with the benefit of education.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cf0\"><blockquote>\n  <p>S<\/span>uccessful self-management involves knowledge across a broad range of topics, and a person who participates in diabetes education can be empowered to take control of their diabetes by gaining the knowledge and skills to manage their condition effectively<span class=\"cf0\">. <cite> &#8212 Luriza Glynn<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Glynn, Luthra and Madhavan were guests on the <em>UConn Health Pulse<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DQKRnwJe9T\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/education-as-a-diabetes-management-tool\">Education as a Diabetes Management Tool<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Education as a Diabetes Management Tool&#8221; &#8212; UConn Health\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/education-as-a-diabetes-management-tool\/embed#?secret=sFKwtOrjoE#?secret=DQKRnwJe9T\" data-secret=\"DQKRnwJe9T\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear from UConn Health diabetes care experts about the importance of recognizing early signs of diabetes and, once diagnosed, managing it with the benefit of education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":158112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2231,1868,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-199206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","category-meds","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 09:17:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199236,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199206\/revisions\/199236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/158112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199206"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=199206"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=199206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}