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Pharmacologic Approaches to Glycemic Treatment: Standards of Care in Diabetes — 2025
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- This American Diabetes Association Standards of Care in Diabetes chapter provides guidelines regarding pharmacologic therapy for adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and offers guidance on selecting medications for specific comorbid conditions such as cardiovascular and chronic kidney diseases.
- The chapter discusses the available insulin delivery methods — including insulin pump therapy with or without automation — as well as both surgical and non-insulin treatment options for adults with type 1 diabetes and reviews pharmacologic treatment options — including monotherapy and combination therapy — for adults with type 2 diabetes.
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Access this abstract nowThe American Diabetes Association (ADA) "Standards of Care in Diabetes" includes the ADA's current clinical practice recommendations and is intended to provide the components of diabetes care, general treatment goals and guidelines, and tools to evaluate quality of care. Members of the ADA Professional Practice Committee, an interprofessional expert committee, are responsible for updating the Standards of Care annually, or more frequently as warranted. For a detailed description of ADA standards, statements, and reports, as well as the evidence-grading system for ADA's clinical practice recommendations and a full list of Professional Practice Committee members, please refer to Introduction and Methodology. Readers who wish to comment on the Standards of Care are invited to do so at professional.diabetes.org/SOC.
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9. Pharmacologic Approaches to Glycemic Treatment: Standards of Care in Diabetes-2025
Diabetes Care 2025 Jan 01;48(Supplement_1)S181-S206, American Diabetes Association Professional Practice CommitteeFrom MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
This segment from the American Diabetes Association's annually updated Standard of Care in Diabetes focuses on the pharmacological management of individuals with type 2 diabetes. It includes some modest modifications of earlier guidelines, with figures that are more streamlined and easier to follow. It should be at least perused by anyone involved in the clinical care of patients with diabetes.