Management of Hyperglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes: A Patient-Centered Approach

Diabetes Care - Tập 35 Số 6 - Trang 1364-1379 - 2012
Silvio E. Inzucchi1, Richard M. Bergenstal2, John B. Buse3, Michaëla Diamant4, Ele Ferrannini5, Michael A. Nauck6, Anne L. Peters7, Απόστολος Τσάπας8, Richard C. Wender9, David R. Matthews10,11,12
1From the Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut; the
2International Diabetes Center at Park Nicollet, Minneapolis, Minnesota; the
3Division of Endocrinology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; the
4Diabetes Center/Department of Internal Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; the
5Department of Medicine, University of Pisa School of Medicine, Pisa, Italy
6Diabeteszentrum Bad Lauterberg, Bad Lauterberg im Harz, Germany; the
7Division of Endocrinology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; the
8Second Medical Department, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; the
9Department of Family and Community Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the
10Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K
11National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, U.K.; and the
12Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford, U.K.; the

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