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  • Title: Effects of oral antihyperglycemic agents in modifying macrovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetes.
    Author: Lebovitz HE.
    Journal: Diabetes Care; 1999 Apr; 22 Suppl 3():C41-4. PubMed ID: 10189561.
    Abstract:
    Management of patients with type 2 diabetes should focus on decreasing the excess macrovascular disease with which it is associated as well as preventing or minimizing microvascular disease. Near-normoglycemic control can reduce microvascular disease. Reducing macrovascular disease requires concomitant management of the cardiovascular risk factors (components of the insulin resistance syndrome) associated with type 2 diabetes. The first phase of such treatment is to identify the effects that the various drugs to treat the hyperglycemia are likely to have on these associated cardiovascular risk factors. Appropriate combinations of antihyperglycemic agents should be selected for specific patients to help achieve good glycemic control and produce beneficial, or at least nondetrimental, effects on cardiovascular risk.
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