Management of a patient at high risk of type 2 diabetes

Rates of type 2 diabetes mellitus have risen rapidly over the past three to four decades. This article describes a typical patient presenting with intermediate hyperglycaemia in primary care. We suggest the appropriate action to reduce the risk of diabetes developing. Population-level preventive int...

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Autores principales: Howells, Lara, McKay, Ailsa J., Hussain, Sufyan, Majeed, Azeem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2016
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Learning Resource
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5330347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28250838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17571472.2016.1203509
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description Rates of type 2 diabetes mellitus have risen rapidly over the past three to four decades. This article describes a typical patient presenting with intermediate hyperglycaemia in primary care. We suggest the appropriate action to reduce the risk of diabetes developing. Population-level preventive interventions, and adequate recognition and early management of those at risk of developing diabetes, could mitigate the impact of this evolving health epidemic.
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spelling pubmed-53303472017-03-01 Management of a patient at high risk of type 2 diabetes Howells, Lara McKay, Ailsa J. Hussain, Sufyan Majeed, Azeem London J Prim Care (Abingdon) Learning Resource Rates of type 2 diabetes mellitus have risen rapidly over the past three to four decades. This article describes a typical patient presenting with intermediate hyperglycaemia in primary care. We suggest the appropriate action to reduce the risk of diabetes developing. Population-level preventive interventions, and adequate recognition and early management of those at risk of developing diabetes, could mitigate the impact of this evolving health epidemic. Taylor & Francis 2016-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5330347/ /pubmed/28250838 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17571472.2016.1203509 Text en © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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