Sixty years after its introduction in the therapeutic arsenal of type 2 diabetes, metformin remains first-line treatment diabetes according to national and international guidelines. Numerous obser¬vational studies have suggested that may exert beneficial effects on - nondiabetes related comorbidi¬ties, including cardiovascular, hepatic, neoplastic, infectious dis¬eases. However, direct evidence...

Aim: To compare the adherence to clinical guidelines by GPs as registered and glycaemic control in Turkish and Dutch type 2 diabetes patients. Design: A retrospective cohort study. Search of general practice medical records for diabetesrelated variables of Turkish and Dutch diabetes patients, stratified for age and gender. Setting: Seventeen general practices (37 GPs) in the inner city of Rotte...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether rural health care providers are compliant with American Diabetes Association (ADA) clinical practice guidelines for glycemic, blood pressure, lipid management, and preventative services. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This study was performed using a retrospective chart review of 399 patients 45 years of age and older, with a definitive diagnosis of diabetes seen f...

Diabetes mellitus is a significant public health problem whose worldwide prevalence has been increasing in recent years [1]. Approximately 15 million people in the United States have the disease, one third of whom remain undiagnosed [2]. The disease exacts an enormous economic toll: in 1997, direct and indirect costs of diabetes totaled $98 billion [3]. There is a great imperative to improve di...

A Task and Finish Group of Diabetes UK was convened over 14 months to undertake a systematic review of the original 1999 British Diabetic Association guidance on care home diabetes, incorporate new research findings and produce a set of recommendations that are evidenced-based, practical and implementable within UK care home settings. The anticipation of Diabetes UK is that these guidelines wil...

©2016 by the American Diabetes Association. Readers may use this article as long as the work is properly cited, the use is educational and not for profit, and the work is not altered. See http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 for details. Diabetes has long been considered a risk equivalent to coronary heart disease (CHD) (1,2). The first report of the National Cholesterol Education ...

• Pre-transplant weight and pre-transplant weight gain increase the risk of the development of diabetes therefore weight management strategies should be a priority for patients awaiting a kidney transplant. (Level III evidence) • There are no Level III or IV studies examining the safety and efficacy of dietary interventions for the prevention and management of diabetes in adult kidney transplan...