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The Adherence of Primary Care Providers to the cardiovascular protection in patients with the debut of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

The major cause of death in patients with T2DM is major adverse negative cardiovascular events, consequently, hypoglycemic therapy with a cardioprotective effect has an advantage over other oral hypoglycemic agents. Primary care providers often demonstrate clinical inertia in managing patients with...

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Published in:The American heart journal 2021-12, Vol.242, p.168-168
Main Authors: Olga, Dudka, Victoria, Guryeva, Diana, Zhonkabayeva, Dinara, Kystaubayeva, Dinara, Sheryazdanova, Natalya, Vassilyeva
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Language:English
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Summary:The major cause of death in patients with T2DM is major adverse negative cardiovascular events, consequently, hypoglycemic therapy with a cardioprotective effect has an advantage over other oral hypoglycemic agents. Primary care providers often demonstrate clinical inertia in managing patients with the onset of T2DM, underestimating their cardiovascular risk. To evaluate adherence to ADA diabetes care standards in patients with high and low cardiovascular risk and newly diagnosed T2DM. Methods We conducted a retrospective study of medical records of patients with newly diagnosed T2DM. The subject of the study was medical records, according to which the cardiovascular risk of patients was calculated using ASCVD 2013 Risk Calculator from AHA/ACC. The patients were divided into 2 groups: low risk (ASCVD
ISSN:0002-8703
1097-6744
DOI:10.1016/j.ahj.2021.10.057