Type 2 Diabetes: Targeting the Entire Individual

Michael E. Cobble, MD

Director, Canyons Medical Center
Adjunct Faculty, University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, Utah

Treating patients with type 2 diabetes requires whole patient management, from monitoring glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels to neuropathy and psychiatry. Here, Dr Cobble describes how he assesses depression in diabetic patients and the different treatment options currently available for diabetes. The potential for incretin-based therapies as complementary treatment of the whole patient is also discussed.

References

Campbell RK, Cobble ME, et al. Distinguishing among incretin-based therapies. J Fam Pract. 2010;59(9 Suppl 1):S3-30.
Silva N, Atlantis E, Ismail K. A Review of the association between depression and isulin resistance: Pitfalls of secondary analyses or a promising new approach to prevention of type 2 diabetes? Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2011 Nov 18. [Epub ahead of print]
Chung JO, Cho DH, et al. Association between diabetic polyneuropathy and cardiovascular complications in type 2 diabetic patients. Diabetes Metab J. 2011;35(4):390-6.

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