Diabetes Care

1. Diabetes Care Summary of Revisions for the 2013Clinical Practice Recommendations Copied from: http://diabetesjournals.org/content/36/Supplement_1/S3.extract

2. Section II.C. Screening for Type 1 Diabetes has been revised to include more specific recommendations.

3. Consider referring relatives of those with type 1 diabetes for antibody testing for risk assessment in the setting of a clinical research study. (E)

4. Section IV. Prevention/Delay of Type 2 Diabetes has been revised to reflect the importance of screening for and treating other cardiovascular risk factors

5. People with prediabetes often have other cardiovascular risk factors, such as obesity, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. Assessing and treating these risk factors is an important aspect of reducing cardiometabolic risk. In the DPP and DPPOS, cardiovascular event rates have been very low, perhaps due to appropriate management of cardiovascular risk factors in all arms of the study (56).

6. Section V.C.a. Glucose Monitoring has been revised to highlight the need for patients on intensive insulin regimens to do frequent self-monitoring of blood glucose

7. Patients on multiple-dose insulin (MDI) or insulin pump therapy should do SMBG at least prior to meals and snacks, occasionally postprandially, at bedtime, prior to exercise, when they suspect low blood glucose, after treating low blood glucose until they are normoglycemic, and prior to critical tasks such as driving. (B)

8. Section V.D. Pharmacological and Overall Approaches to Treatment has been revised to add a section with more specific recommendations for insulin therapy in type 1 diabetes

9. Most people with type 1 diabetes should be treated with MDI injections (three to four injections per day of basal and prandial insulin) or continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII). (A) • Most people with type 1 diabetes should be educated in how to match prandial insulin dose to carbohydrate intake, premeal blood glucose, and anticipated activity. (E) • Most people with type 1 diabetes should use insulin analogs to reduce hypoglycemia risk. (A) • Consider screening those with type 1 diabetes for other autoimmune diseases (thyroid, vitamin B12 deficiency, celiac) as appropriate. (B)

10. Section V.F. Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support has been revised to be National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support consistent with the newly revised.

11. People with diabetes should receive DSME and diabetes self-management support (DSMS) according to National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support when their diabetes is diagnosed and as needed thereafter. (B) • Effective self-management and quality of life are the key outcomes of DSME and DSMS and should be measured and monitored as part of care. (C) • DSME and DSMS should address psychosocial issues, since emotional well-being is associated with positive diabetes outcomes. (C)

12. DSME and DSMS programs are appropriate venues for people with prediabetes to receive education and support to develop and maintain behaviors that can prevent or delay the onset of diabetes. (C) • Because DSME and DSMS can result in cost-savings and improved outcomes (B), DSME and DSMS should be adequately reimbursed by third-party payers. (E)

13. Section V.K. Hypoglycemia has been revised to emphasize the need to assess hypoglycemia and cognitive function when indicated.

14. Individuals at risk for hypoglycemia should be asked about symptomatic and asymptomatic hypoglycemia at each encounter. (C) • Glucose (15–20 g) is the preferred treatment for the conscious individual with hypoglycemia, although any form of carbohydrate that contains glucose may be used. If SMBG 15 min after treatment shows continued hypoglycemia, the treatment should be repeated. Once SMBG glucose returns to normal, the individual should consume a meal or snack to prevent recurrence of hypoglycemia. (E) • Glucagon should be prescribed for all individuals at significant risk of severe hypoglycemia, and caregivers or family members of these individuals should be instructed on its administration. Glucagon administration is not limited to health care professionals. (E)

15. Hypoglycemia unawareness or one or more episodes of severe hypoglycemia should trigger re-evaluation of the treatment regimen. (E) • Insulin-treated patients with hypoglycemia unawareness or an episode of severe hypoglycemia should be advised to raise their glycemic targets to strictly avoid further hypoglycemia for at least several weeks, to partially reverse hypoglycemia unawareness, and to reduce risk of future episodes. (A) • Ongoing assessment of cognitive function is suggested with increased vigilance for hypoglycemia by the clinician, patient, and caregivers if low cognition and/or declining cognition is found. (B)

16. Section V.M. Immunization has been updated to include the new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations for hepatitis B vaccination for people with diabetes

17. Administer hepatitis B vaccination to unvaccinated adults with diabetes who are aged 19 through 59 years. (C) • Consider administering hepatitis B vaccination to unvaccinated adults with diabetes who are aged ≥60 years. (C)

18. Section VI.A.1. Hypertension/Blood Pressure Control has been revised to suggest that the systolic blood pressure goal for many people with diabetes and hypertension should be ,140 mmHg, but that lower systolic targets (such as,130 mmHg) may be appropriate for certain individuals, such as younger patients, if it can be achieved without undue treatment burden.

19. Section VI.A.2. Dyslipidemia/Lipid Management and Table 10 have been revised to emphasize the importance of statin therapy over particular LDL cholesterol goals in high-risk patients.

20. Table 10 - Summary of recommendations for glycemic, blood pressure, and lipid control for most adults with diabetes _________________________________________________________ A1C 7.0%* Blood pressure 140/80 mmHg** • Lipids • LDL cholesterol 100 mg/dL • Statin therapy for those with history of MI or age over 40+ • other risk factors _________________________________________________________ *More or less stringent glycemic goals may be appropriate for individual patients. Goals should be individualized based on duration of diabetes, age/life expectancy, comorbid conditions, known CVD or advanced microvascularcomplications, hypoglycemia unawareness, and individual patient considerations. **Based on patient characteristics and response to therapy, lower systolic blood pressure targets may be appropriate. †In individuals with overt CVD, a lower LDL cholesterol goal of,70 mg/dL (1.8mmol/L), using a high dose of a statin, is an option.

21. Section VI.B. Nephropathy Screening and Treatment and Table 11 have been revised to highlight increased urinary albumin excretion over the terms micro- and macroalbuminuria, other than when discussion of past studies requires the distinction.

22. Table 11 - Definitions of abnormalities in albumin excretion Category Spot collection (mg/mg creatinine) _____________________________________________ Normal 30 Increased urinary albumin excretion* >/=30 _____________________________________________ • *Historically, ratios between 30 and 299 have been called microalbuminuria and those 300 or greater have been called macroalbuminuria (or clinical albuminuria).

23. Section VI.C. Retinopathy Screening and Treatment has been revised to include anti–vascular endothelial growth factor therapy for diabetic macular edema

24. Section IX.A. Diabetes Care in the Hospital has been revised to include a recommendation to consider obtaining an A1C in patients with risk factors for undiagnosed diabetes who exhibit hyperglycemia in the hospital.