Medical Management of Hyperglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes: A Consensus Algorithm for the Initiation and Adjustment of Therapy
Harvard University Press · Massachusetts General Hospital · +10 more institutions
Abstract
The consensus algorithm for the medical management of type 2 diabetes was published in August 2006 with the expectation that it would be updated, based on the availability of new interventions and new evidence to establish their clinical role. The authors continue to endorse the principles used to develop the algorithm and its major features. We are sensitive to the risks of changing the algorithm cavalierly or too frequently, without compelling new information. An update to the consensus algorithm published in January 2008 specifically addressed safety issues surrounding the thiazolidinediones. In this revision, we focus on the new classes of medications that now have more clinical data and experience.
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 237.98
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 110
Authors
7- DMDavid M. NathanCorresponding
Harvard University Press, Massachusetts General Hospital
- JBJohn B. Buse
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Endocrinology Research Center
- MBMayer B. Davidson
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
- EFEle Ferrannini
University of Pisa
- RRRury R. Holman
University of Oxford, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Topics & keywords
- Medicine
- Psychological intervention
- Algorithm
- Consensus algorithm
- Diabetes mellitus
- Type 2 diabetes
- Intensive care medicine
- MEDLINE
- Good health and well-being