Translating “Tight Control”?
Authors: Thomas E. Finucane
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2004)

Letters16 November 2004Translating “Tight Control”?Thomas E. Finucane, MDThomas E. Finucane, MDFrom Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21224.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-141-10-200411160-00022 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail TO THE EDITOR:In the 1 June 2004 Annals supplement “Diabetes Translation and Public Health,” several of the articles assumed or stated that careful monitoring and tight control of blood glucose levels are important in managing type 2 diabetes mellitus.In the 4 February 2003 issue of Annals, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force presented a table with results from all published randomized, controlled trials of “tight control” of type 2 diabetes (1). If the metformin arm of the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study and a multi-intervention Steno-2 trial (of 160 patients followed for 3 years) are excluded, the table ...References1. Harris R, Donahue K, Rathore SS, Frame P, Woolf SH, Lohr KN. Screening adults for type 2 diabetes: a review of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Ann Intern Med. 2003;138:215-29. [PMID: 12558362] LinkGoogle Scholar2. Murphy D, Chapel T, Clark C. Moving diabetes care from science to practice: the evolution of the National Diabetes Prevention and Control Program. Ann Intern Med. 2004;140:978-84. [PMID: 15172924] LinkGoogle Scholar3. Engelgau MM, Geiss LS, Saaddine JB, Boyle JP, Benjamin SM, Gregg EW, et al. The evolving diabetes burden in the United States. Ann Intern Med. 2004;140:945-50. [PMID: 15172919] LinkGoogle Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: From Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21224. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoScreening Adults for Type 2 Diabetes: A Review of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Russell Harris , Katrina Donahue , Saif S. Rathore , Paul Frame , Steven H. Woolf , and Kathleen N. Lohr Moving Diabetes Care from Science to Practice: The Evolution of the National Diabetes Prevention and Control Program Dara Murphy , Tom Chapel , and Cynthia Clark The Evolving Diabetes Burden in the United States Michael M. Engelgau , Linda S. Geiss , Jinan B. Saaddine , James P. Boyle , Stephanie M. Benjamin , Edward W. Gregg , Edward F. Tierney , Nilka Rios-Burrows , Ali H. Mokdad , Earl S. Ford , Giuseppina Imperatore , and K. M. Venkat Narayan Translating “Tight Control”? Michael M. Engelgau , Linda S. Geiss , Dara Murphy , K M. Venkat Narayan , and Frank Vinicor Metrics Cited byAltered Risk for Cardiovascular Events With Changes in the Metabolic Syndrome StatusThomas E. Finucane, MD 16 November 2004Volume 141, Issue 10Page: 822KeywordsBloodGlucoseHemoglobinMyocardial infarctionPrevention, policy, and public healthProspective studiesRenal failureRisk managementType 2 diabetesVisual impairments ePublished: 16 November 2004 Issue Published: 16 November 2004 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2004 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...