Diabetes Management Remains Suboptimal: Even Academic Centers Neglect Curbing Risk Factors

摘要

As countless studies and treatmentguidelines attest, preventing heart disease, stroke, and other complications of diabetes requires aggressive management of such risk factors as hyperglycemia, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. Despite this, even vaunted academic medical centers continue to do a poor job of addressing risk factors in patients with the disorder, according to a new study published in February.