The American Diabetes Association (ADA)“Standards of Care in Diabetes” includes the
ADA's current clinical practice recommendations and is intended to provide the components …

Importance Prediabetes, an intermediate stage between normal glucose regulation and
diabetes, affects 1 in 3 adults in the US and approximately 720 million individuals …

Document Reviewers: Luis Alcocer (Mexico), Christina Antza (Greece), Mustafa Arici
(Turkey), Eduardo Barbosa (Brazil), Adel Berbari (Lebanon), Luıs Bronze (Portugal), John …

Health professionals are encouraged to take the Guidelines fully into account when
exercising their clinical judgment, as well as in the determination and the implementation of …

High systolic blood pressure (SBP) is a major risk factor for ischemic heart disease (IHD), the
leading cause of death worldwide. Using data from published observational studies and …

Diabetes mellitus bezeichnet eine Gruppe von heterogenen Erkrankungen, deren
gemeinsamer Befund die Erhöhung der Blutglukosekonzentration ist. Die gegenwärtige …

Importance High blood pressure (BP) is the most important risk factor for death and
cardiovascular disease (CVD) worldwide. The optimal cutoff for treatment of high BP is …

Metabolic syndrome is defined by a constellation of interconnected physiological,
biochemical, clinical, and metabolic factors that directly increases the risk of cardiovascular …

Prediabetes is an intermediate stage between normal glycemia and diabetes and is highly
prevalent, especially in older age groups and obese individuals. Five different definitions of …

Prediabetes (intermediate hyperglycaemia) is a high-risk state for diabetes that is defined by
glycaemic variables that are higher than normal, but lower than diabetes thresholds. 5–10 …