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Clinical Decisions
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Volume 358:e8 February 14, 2008 Number 7
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Management of Type 2 Diabetes — Polling Results
Florencia Halperin, M.D., Julie R. Ingelfinger, M.D., and Graham T. McMahon, M.D., M.M.Sc.

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In mid-January, we presented the case of a patient with type 2 diabetes in Clinical Decisions,1 an interactive feature designed to assess how readers would manage a clinical problem for which there may be more than one appropriate treatment. Our patient was a 55-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. Her morning fasting glucose levels ranged between 110 and 140 mg per deciliter (6.1 and 7.8 mmol per liter), and her glycated hemoglobin level was 8.1%. Her medication regimen included metformin (1000 mg twice daily) and glipizide (10 mg twice daily).

Of the three management options proposed, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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