November 4, 2015
Excerpt from the article:
“The recommendations are warranted and long overdue,” wrote Neda Laiteerapong, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, wrote in an email toMedPage Today.
“I think many primary care physicians are doing this already. But I think it’s very likely that some physicians are still relying on the 2008 guidelines to screen based on blood pressure levels. So the updated guidelines were very necessary,” added Laiteerapong, who was not involved in the the guidelines.
“Importantly, a major reason the guidelines have changed is because new trials that have demonstrated the benefits of intensive behavioral counseling to combat diabetes and other cardiovascular outcomes,” Laiteerapong added. “However, the systems to routinely get intensive behavioral counseling are not yet in place in many healthcare settings.”
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