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SUBMITTER: Phillips LS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4170125 | biostudies-other | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Phillips Lawrence S LS Ratner Robert E RE Buse John B JB Kahn Steven E SE
Diabetes care 20141001 10
As diabetes develops, we currently waste the first ∼10 years of the natural history. If we found prediabetes and early diabetes when they first presented and treated them more effectively, we could prevent or delay the progression of hyperglycemia and the development of complications. Evidence for this comes from trials where lifestyle change and/or glucose-lowering medications decreased progression from prediabetes to diabetes. After withdrawal of these interventions, there was no "catch-up"-cu ...[more]