Your patients with diabetes may benefit from new guidance from the NIH. The National In-stitute of Health’s National Diabetes Education Pr-ogram (NDEP) has published a set of 10 guiding principles that highlights areas of agreement for diabetes care for management and prevention. The guidance, “Guiding Principles for the Care of Peo-ple With or at Risk for Diabetes,” is at http://ndep.nih.gov/hcp-businesses-and-schools/guiding-principles/
“There are a lot of diabetes guidelines out there, and practitioners and patients can get confused about which they should follow,” says NIH physician Judith Fradkin in a release. “We aren’t creating new guidelines, but clarifying where there is general agreement across myriad diabetes guidelines. Guiding Principles represents a set of sound practices. Our goal in developing this resource is to help clinicians help their patients with diabetes,” says Fradkin, director of the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases in the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.