For years, doctors have followed a standard approach to treating their type 2 diabetes patients:
• Advise them to lose weight and exercise.
• Start them on an oral medicine that helps lower blood sugar.
• Add more drugs as needed over time.
But a new attitude is evolving among some doctors who believe a more aggressive approach would better control the disease and help patients avoid its severe consequences in later life.
• Advise them to lose weight and exercise.
• Start them on an oral medicine that helps lower blood sugar.
• Add more drugs as needed over time.
But a new attitude is evolving among some doctors who believe a more aggressive approach would better control the disease and help patients avoid its severe consequences in later life.
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