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Article: New guidelines for diabetes types 1 and 2: endocrinologists offer updated recommendations to increase glycemic control and avoid complications. Here is a quick summary.(FEATURE)
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- Clinical Advisor
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) has released new guidelines to help the practitioner caring for patients with diabetes mellitus. (1) Several well-designed, large-scale trials have demonstrated that tight glycemic control can yield benefits in end-organ/complication prevention. As the guidelines show, these results have given clinicians additional reason to intensify glycemic control in attempts to prevent and/or minimize the severity of microvascular and macrovascular complications. Despite these efforts, only 7% of patients with type 2 diabetes who receive their care in academic centers achieve recommended goals for glycemia, lipids, and BP.
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