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Taking Control Of Your Diabetes: An Innovative Approach to Improving Diabetes Care Through Educating, Motivating, and Making the Connection Between Patients and Health Care Providers
- Source :
- Clinical Diabetes : A Publication of the American Diabetes Association
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- American Diabetes Association, 2017.
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Abstract
- The gold-standard goal of diabetes management has been to achieve meaningful and sustained glycemic control to reduce the risk of long-term complications. Unfortunately, results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey indicate that only ∼50% of adults with diabetes in the United States, mostly with type 2 diabetes, are achieving an A1C 9%, has actually increased (2,3). The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set results, with data from >1,000 health plans covering >171 million lives, are even more striking, demonstrating that, in 2014, ∼40% of commercially insured health maintenance organization patients and 30% of government insured patients achieved an A1C 40 new treatment options for people with type 2 diabetes. This fact is quite shocking and difficult to understand, especially given that our armamentarium of effective and safe type 2 medications has expanded over the same time period to include dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4) inhibitors, sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors, designer insulins, inhaled insulin, and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists. Although there may be many reasons why these new treatment options haven’t made a dent in the glycemic control of our patients with type 2 diabetes during these past 10 years, I feel strongly that the basic and primary issue is a lack of patient education, motivation, and activation. Type 2 diabetes is a silent condition with few or no symptoms caused by poor …
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Departments
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
business.industry
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
030209 endocrinology & metabolism
Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set
Type 2 diabetes
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
medicine.disease
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Diabetes management
Commentaries
Diabetes mellitus
Health care
Internal Medicine
Medicine
business
Intensive care medicine
Glycemic
Patient education
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19454953 and 08918929
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Diabetes
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e497cc6222e9474faec97f9232904bc2