Optimizing Care in Diabetes: a Quixotic Challenge

• Autores: Eli Friedman
• Localización: Diabetes care, ISSN-e 0149-5992, Vol. 35, Nº. 6, 2012, págs. 1204-1205
• Idioma: inglés
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  • [...]this is additional stress for health care providers. (15) of the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) trial results leading to the quixotic inference that factors associated with persisting higher AlC levels, rather than lower AlC per se are as likely to increase mortality in patients with diabetes. [...]in 2012, the primary care physician greeting a newly diagnosed 65-year-old diabetic patient has blurry marching orders as to what extent of glucose regulation may not only be best in terms of slowing diabetes complications but safest in extending life.