Clinical Diabetes
26:1-2,
2008
DOI: 10.2337/diaclin.26.1.1
© 2008 by the American Diabetes Association
Improving Diabetes Outcomes: Beyond Glucocentricity
Tom Elasy, MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief
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Alteration in glucose homeostasis is the sine qua non of
diabetes. Independent of the type of diabetes, all individuals with diabetes
share some perturbation in the ability to maintain glucose within a specified
range. Not surprisingly, glucose regulation has been a key focus in
understanding disease pathogenesis and progression as well as the target of
diabetes interventional trials. Indeed, the seminal clinical trials in
diabetes during the past 15 years (the Diabetes Control and Complications
Trial, the U.K. Prospective Diabetes Study, and the Diabetes Prevention
Program) have all given core attention to glucose regulation, either as
treatment or prevention. All three trials have demonstrated the wisdom and
benefit of an approach that addresses glucose control. Yet a focus on glucose
alone is an incomplete approach to the care of individuals with diabetes. The
profound impact of improving other disturbances in diabetes has become clear
during the past 10-15 years; . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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