Preventing type 2 diabetes – how to proceed?

Preventing type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Type 2 diabetes is a serious, costly, and increasingly common disease. Several conditions commonly seen in family medicine settings confer increased risk of developing diabetes. Among these conditions are impaired glucose tolerance, impaired fasting glucose, obesity, gestational diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and menopause. We here present the results of a systematic review of the lite...

Preventing microalbuminuria in type 2 diabetes.

BACKGROUND The multicenter double-blind, randomized Bergamo Nephrologic Diabetes Complications Trial (BENEDICT) was designed to assess whether angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors and non-dihydropyridine calcium-channel blockers, alone or in combination, prevent microalbuminuria in subjects with hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and normal urinary albumin excretion. METHODS We studi...

What's preventing us from preventing type 2 diabetes?

n engl j med 367;13 nejm.org september 27, 2012 1177 prevent or substantially delay the onset of type 2 diabetes both safely and cost-effectively.1,2 Yet diabetes prevention is not widely practiced in the United States, and the disease’s staggering human and financial costs continue to grow. It is therefore essential to identify the factors impeding the full realization of the DPP interventions...

(How) can we prevent type 2 diabetes?

Preventing type 2 diabetes mellitus: a call for personalized intervention.

In parallel with the rising prevalence of obesity worldwide, especially in younger people, there has been a dramatic increase in recent decades in the incidence and prevalence of metabolic consequences of obesity, in particular prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2). Although approximately one-third of US adults now meet one or more diagnostic criteria for prediabetes, only a minority o...