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DOI: 10.4103/1947-489X.210778
Guidelines for management of type 2 diabetes 2012: Common sense prevails!
Recently, guidelines on the management of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes were released by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) as their formally adopted position statement. These guidelines are different from the previously published documents. They introduced a nonalgorithmic patient-centered approach that stressed the principles of individualization of care based on several important patients' attributes. They affirmed the role of lifestyle modification as a basic requirement, metformin as the first line pharmacological therapy and individuallytailored basis for the choice of the second and third line drugs. In this paper, the authors reflect on these guidelines from the world-wide practicing physicians' view point.
Key-words:
Diabetes - Guidelines - Hyperglycaemia - Patient-centered care - American Diabetes Association - European Association for the Study of Diabetes.Publication History
Received: 31 July 2012
Accepted: 30 August 2012
Article published online:
17 June 2022
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