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use in either hospital or outpatient settings will diminish clinicians
possible efforts due to ignorance of daily postprandial blood glucose
monitoring.
Today, no one can barely state that all of the diabetes occurence
and mechanisms for complications are obvious today, since at least
increasing number of immuno-pathologic evidence of the disease
itself and disappointing out comes of the newly discovered drugs
leading to cardiovascular events and cancer, although the latter is on
debate. Multi-center randomized studies performed during less than a
decade ago, now announced that personalized diabetes management
is utmost important and values equal to 6.5 or 7% for A1c for the
elderly especially when they do suffer from cardiovascular disease,
did diminish the life expectancy.
3
Therefore, I would suggest to say
‘diabetes treatment should be suitable according to the season of
the diabetes that the patient is experiencing.’ That is actually why
weare re-shaping the prescription at least almost once a year for both
monitoring the best glucose numbers that body does need and the
complications before that is too late-irreversible.
Of the diabetes patients who have type 2, 50% have neuropathy.
Symptoms do not regress in all, and does aggrevate in some while
glucose numbers diminish, and even within normal range of A1 care
obtained, since glucose spikes during day and night, even adding many
hypos will reveal a normal Hb glycosillation, which in fact will cheat
the clinician about patient care and future plan during decision making.
Owing to almost three months of diabetes duration refection, A1c
may not represent how carbonhydrate, lipid and protein metabolism
work for a patient –let’s say- who has diabetes for 15years. Currently,
we are aware of the fact that 15years of diabetes duration is not a real
2 digit number, but just luckily when the patient remembers his/her
diabetes diagnosis. We believe at least we are 5years late today for
the real-time diagnosis of diabetes, and this might be upto 20years
if we take into consideration of the pre-diabetes state where already
cardiovascular disease-endothelial dysfunction was given a start.
Additionally, diabetic might have visited to a diabetes center for
excellence for the last year and put an almost normal A1clevel in front
of you. But still your efforts on management, do not erase the risk of
complications oral ready the represent deleterious glucose toxicity.
Scientists are working on better convenient diabetes drugs, less
painful insulin injections, painless glucose measurement devices,
better insulin delivery system that will catch up the postprandial
glucose excursions, but also probability of complications even during
existing normal A1c levels. Clear Path DS-120 is one of them, which
does easily work in an offce, i.e. an eye clinic such as ours where
diabetologists work together with ophthalmologists. The instrument
is developed in University settings and on market from San Diego
now.
4
It is not for diagnosis, defnitely. But for suitable eyes for
screening by ophthalmologists even some diabetologists who do not
understand the biochemical and clinical differences in certain cases.
During busy daily practice we do have the ability of having all our
patients seeing atleast three months a part, so as to have more clues on
what is going on throughout the body oral ready does have metabolic
disaster. Machine is not useful in all cases for example those who
have cataracts. Lens proteins are capable of refecting somehow the
rest of the body glycosillation or invasion of advanced glycosillation
end products (AGEP) that may takeplace inside the vessel walls. Wide
spread multi-center and multi-country studies and collaborations will
identify the use of this fairly new challenge and also help clear out the
situation that may better improve the conditions of the instruments
depending on the feedbacks from clinicians.
Acknowledgements
None.
Confict of interest
Author declares that there is no confict of interest.
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Complications of diabetes: how to address & how to
manage?
Volume 1 Issue 2 - 2014
Mehmet Akif Buyukbese,
1
Nilufer Koyluoglu
Unal
2
1
Department of Internal Medicine, Dunya Diabetes Center,
Turkey
2
Department of Ophthalmology, Dunyagoz Hospital, Turkey
Correspondence: Mehmet Akif Buyukbese, Department of
Internal Medicine, Dunya Diabetes Center, Zeytinlik M Sahilyolu
C, 34140 Atakoy, Turkey, Tel +902124137575, Fax +90 212 661
0796, Email akif_buyukbese@yahoo.com
Received: May 01, 2014 | Published: May 02, 2014
Journal of Diabetes, Metabolic Disorders & Control
Editorial
Open Access
Editorial
Despite tremendous efforts for early diagnosis, investments on
public awareness programs and increasing number of congressses and
symposiums about better understanding of development of diabetes
and its complications, we are still way behind our expectations for
satisfying our patients as well as our budgets refecting the treatment
and complication costs.
1
While HbA1c remains the main source of
following glycaemic regulation as a biochemical parameter, yet
standardization studies for this unique item remains as a problem for
many countries since the issue takesplace one of the main topics of
the sessions being held in diabetes society meetings.
2
Oral Glucose
Challenge Test (OGTT) does stay the most important diagnostic tool,
however cost of time pushed many authorities use A1c as part of the
diagnosis. Meanwhile, normal levels not only did not prove that the
patient did not have diabetes, but this new criteria in case of a widely