The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), a partnership between the NIH, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), and several organizations and agencies, including the Endocrine Society released a newly published set of 10 guiding principles highlighting areas of agreement for diabetes care that could be clinically useful in diabetes management and prevention. Guiding Principles for the Care of People With or at Risk for Diabetes is aimed at assisting with identification and management of the disease, self-management support for patients, physical activity, and blood glucose control, among other topics.
“There are a lot of diabetes guidelines out there, and practitioners and patients can get confused about which they should follow,” says Judith Fradkin, MD, director of the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the NIH. “With these Guiding Principles, we aren’t creating new guidelines, but clarifying where there is general agreement across myriad diabetes guidelines. Guiding Principles represents a set of sound practices. Our goal in developing this resource is to help clinicians help their patients with diabetes.”
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