Based in Manchester, the general practitioner has signed up to host an online webinar for healthcare professionals on Thursday, June 25 at 12:30pm, about his specialist subjects diabetes and cardiology.

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He will be using his hour-long session entitled ‘Managing Cardiovascular Risk in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, Evidence into Primary Care’ to urge other doctors to be “proactive” when it comes to finding people with type 2 diabetes who could be at risk of developing heart failure.

He said: “Just because we’re in the middle of a pandemic, doesn’t mean we stop managing people with diabetes to the best of our ability. We all need to be more aware that heart failure is extremely common among people with diabetes and yet it very often goes undiagnosed.

“We ned to be actively looking for these patients because prevention is cure. Virtual consultations can be used to help us to be proactive during these strange times, it’s just about knowing what to ask and what to look for.”

Dr Kanumilli has done a lot of work in this area and even carried out a small audit among his GP practice to further investigate how early intervention could have a positive impact on people’s health.   

He said: “We searched our practice register for people who have type 2 diabetes and we applied certain criteria, such as shortness of breath, medication, duration of diabetes, insulin usage and previous known experience with therapies, to determine their heart failure risk.

“Once identified we then put a protocol in place, inviting these people into the surgery so we could introduce them to SGLT2 inhibitors or GLP-1 Agonists. What we’re trying to do here is introduce these medications early on in the disease cycle in a bid to improve health outcomes and reduce unplanned admissions for the persons living with diabetes.”

Managing Cardiovascular Risk in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, Evidence into Primary Care will take place on Thursday, June 25 at 12:30pm. Prior registration is required. Click here to register.

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