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The billion pound challenge: deprescribing, diabetes and diets
Author(s) -
Greener Mark
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
practical diabetes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.205
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2047-2900
pISSN - 2047-2897
DOI - 10.1002/pdi.2308
Subject(s) - medicine , deprescribing , diabetes mellitus , type 2 diabetes , intensive care medicine , type 1 diabetes , pound (networking) , health professionals , health care , gerontology , endocrinology , polypharmacy , world wide web , computer science , economic growth , economics
Low calorie diets don't just reduce blood glucose sufficiently to, in many cases, place type 2 diabetes into remission, they also offer the opportunity to withdraw or reduce the dose of drugs for diabetes and some comorbidities. Mark Greener here examines the potential for deprescribing in people with type 2 diabetes, the issues facing health care professionals and the outstanding questions.