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Guideline approach to therapy in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes.

Itamar Raz
- 01 Aug 2013 - 
- Vol. 36
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There is a need for recommending a drug therapy preference for antihyperglycemic drugs in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes when lifestyle and metformin fail to keep A1C at target unrelated to these questions.
Abstract
Both the prevalence and incidence of type 2 diabetes are increasing worldwide in conjunction with increased Westernization of the population's lifestyle. Type 2 diabetes is still a leading cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD), amputation, renal failure, and blindness. The risk for microvascular complications is related to overall glycemic burden over time as measured by A1C (1,2). The UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) 10-year follow-up demonstrated a possible effect on CVD as well (3). A meta-analysis of cardiovascular outcome in patients with long disease duration including Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD), Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron MR Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE), and Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial (VADT) suggested that in these populations the reduction of ~1% in A1C is associated with a 15% relative reduction in nonfatal myocardial infarction (4). Most antihyperglycemic drugs besides insulin reduce A1C values to similar levels (5) but differ in their safety elements and pathophysiological effect. Thus, there is a need for recommending a drug therapy preference. While the positive effects on prevention of microvascular complications were demonstrated with the various antihyperglycemic drugs (1,2,6,7), several questions are left open regarding this therapy in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: 1. What is the comparative effectiveness of antihyperglycemic drugs on other long-term outcomes, i.e., β-cell function and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality? 2. What is the comparative safety of these treatments, and do they differ across subgroups of adults with type 2 diabetes? 3. Should we combine antihyperglycemic drugs at the time of diagnosis according to their pathophysiological effect to address the different pathologies leading to hyperglycemia? Most leading guidelines suggest adding one of several antihyperglycemic drugs (5,8,9) when lifestyle and metformin fail to keep A1C at target unrelated to these questions. …

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Intensive blood-glucose control with sulphonylureas or insulin compared with conventional treatment and risk of complications in patients with type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 33)

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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of intensive blood-glucose control with either sulphonylurea or insulin and conventional treatment on the risk of microvascular and macrovascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes in a randomised controlled trial were compared.
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TL;DR: The effects of intensive blood-glucose control with either sulphonylurea or insulin and conventional treatment on the risk of microvascular and macrovascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes in a randomised controlled trial were compared.
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Effect of intensive blood-glucose control with metformin on complications in overweight patients with type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 34)

TL;DR: Since intensive glucose control with metformin appears to decrease the risk of diabetes-related endpoints in overweight diabetic patients, and is associated with less weight gain and fewer hypoglycaemic attacks than are insulin and sulphonylureas, it may be the first-line pharmacological therapy of choice in these patients.

Intensive blood-glucose control with sulphonylureas or insulin compared with conventional treatment and risk of complications in patients with type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 33)

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