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01-03-2015 | Position Statement
Management of hyperglycaemia in type 2 diabetes, 2015: a patient-centred approach. Update to a Position Statement of the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
Authors:
Silvio E. Inzucchi, Richard M. Bergenstal, John B. Buse, Michaela Diamant, Ele Ferrannini, Michael Nauck, Anne L. Peters, Apostolos Tsapas, Richard Wender, David R. Matthews
Published in:
Diabetologia
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Issue 3/2015
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Excerpt
In 2012, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) published a position statement on the management of hyperglycaemia in patients with type 2 diabetes [
1,
2]. This was needed because of an increasing array of anti-hyperglycaemic drugs and growing uncertainty regarding their proper selection and sequence. Because of a paucity of comparative effectiveness research on long-term treatment outcomes with many of these medications, the 2012 publication was less prescriptive than prior consensus reports. We previously described the need to individualise both treatment targets and treatment strategies, with an emphasis on patient-centred care and shared decision-making, and this continues to be our position, although there are now more head-to-head trials that show slight variance between agents with regard to glucose-lowering effects. Nevertheless, these differences are often small and would be unlikely to reflect any definite differential effect in an individual patient. …
