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New guiding principles could help diabetes management, prevention
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Areas of agreement for diabetes care that could be useful in diabetes management and prevention are highlighted in a newly published set of 10 guiding principles, according to a press release from the NIH.
Judith Fradkin
“There are a lot of diabetes guidelines out there, and practitioners can get confused about which they should follow,” Judith Fradkin, MD, director of the division of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolic diseases at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, said in a press release. “With these Guiding Principles, we aren’t creating new guidelines, but clarifying where there is general agreement across myriad diabetes guidelines. Guiding Principles represents a set of sound practices. Our goal in developing this resource is to help clinicians help their patients with diabetes.”
The Guiding Principles for the Care of People with or at Risk for Diabetes aims to identify and manage the disease and also include self-management information for patients, physical activity and blood glucose control.
“Guiding Principles is the results of a major collaborative efforts form a varied group of experts who are committed to improving the care for people with or at risk for diabetes,” Griffin P. Rodgers, MD, director of the NIDDK, said in the release. “These principles represent the cornerstone of diabetes management and prevention.”