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The American College of Physicians has issued less strict guidelines for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes, but some doctors and groups like the American Diabetes Association stand by accepted practices:
Major Medical Associations Feud Over Diabetes Guidelines
A major medical association today suggested that doctors who treat people with Type 2 diabetes can set less aggressive blood sugar targets. But medical groups that specialize in diabetes sharply disagree.
Half a dozen medical groups have looked carefully at the best treatment guidelines for the 29 million Americans who have Type 2 diabetes and have come up with somewhat differing guidelines.
The American College of Physicians has reviewed those guidelines to provide its own recommendations [open, DOI: 10.7326/M17-0939] [DX], published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. It has decided that less stringent goals are appropriate for the key blood sugar test, called the A1C.
Also at Reuters.
(Score: 2) by Kawumpa on Wednesday March 07 2018, @09:37AM (1 child)
While changes in lifestyle and diet can often work wonders, you are forgetting the major obstacle to this course of action: No, not big pharma, patients. It's true that many patients wouldn't need any medication at all, it's just that far too many lack intelligence and motivation to completely change habits acquired over the course of (often) decades when a pill will do. It's just easier.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Wednesday March 07 2018, @09:33PM
You've just paraphrased what my GP said at our last session (no, he wasn't complaining about me).
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.