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Type 2 diabetes mellitus: time to change the concept
Author(s) -
Shmuel Levit,
Yury Ivanovich Filippov,
Alexander Gorelyshev
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
diabetes mellitus
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.155
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2072-0378
pISSN - 2072-0351
DOI - 10.14341/2072-0351-3603
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , type 2 diabetes mellitus , intensive care medicine , endocrinology
Diabetes mellitus is a heterogeneous group of diseases that, although unified by a number of characteristics, require a differential thera- peutic approach. Current review discusses key pathogenic features of type 2 diabetes mellitus that determine therapy goals and options in management. We further enunciate and pathogenetically substantiate a new "gravicentric" concept for treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus that differs in many ways from the common contemporary approach.

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