Title:Joint ESC/EASD Guidelines on Diabetes, where are we Now and where should we Go?
VOLUME: 10 ISSUE: 6
Author(s):Lars Ryden and Linda Mellbin
Affiliation:Department of Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden.
Keywords:Diabetes, prediabetes, management, guidelines.
Abstract:Patients with diabetes and prediabetes are at high risk for micro- and macrovascular complications. A multifactorial
management strategy improves their prognosis considerably. Of concern is that these patients often fall between two
specialties: cardiovascular medicine and diabetology. Practice guidelines for this patient category have been issued in collaboration
between the European Society of Cardiology and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes to ascertain
management according to the best available evidence. This article discusses why and for whom such guidelines are
important.
