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Article: AACE Releases New Diabetes Algorithm for Treatment of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
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- Diabetes Week
- Article date:
- November 2, 2009
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A new, first-of-its-kind diabetes algorithm created to help achieve glycemic (blood sugar) control in type 2 patients was published online today in the September/October edition of Endocrine Practice(1) (see also Type 2 Diabetes).
This diabetes algorithm, which was released as a consensus statement from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and the American College of Endocrinology (ACE), is a simple one-page resource designed to assist primary care physicians, endocrinologists and others in the management of type 2 diabetes.
"Depending on a patient's current A1C level, a physician will use the algorithm to determine whether a ...