Why Don’t Diabetes Patients Achieve Recommended Risk Factor Targets? Poor Adherence versus Lack of Treatment Intensification
- 4 March 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Vol. 23 (5) , 588-594
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-008-0554-8
Abstract
Despite the availability of effective hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia therapies, target levels of systolic blood pressure (SBP), LDL-cholesterol (LDL-c), and hemoglobin A1c control are often not achieved.Keywords
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