Diabetic team

The diabetic team’s goals

Experts uniformly support the concept of a team approach to treating diabetes.

Management step / Achieved by

Glucose control to reduce complications and feel better / Monitoring, diet, exercise, insulin and oral medications, if necessary

Overweight control to decrease insulin resistance / Exercise, diet and medication

Controlled blood pressure to reduce stroke, heart disease and kidney failure / ACE inhibitors, diet and exercise

Wound and infection prevention / Protection and moisturizing

Reducing high cholesterol and triglycerides to reduce heart and vascular disease / Exercise, diet, medication, and tight glucose control

Maintaining kidney function / Tight glucose control, medication, diet

Maintaining liver function / Tight glucose control, medication

Preventing diabetic retinopathy to preserve vision / Tight glucose control, medication

Preventing peripheral vascular disease to preserve blood flow and avoid amputation / Tight glucose control, medication

Preventing autonomic nerve damage to preserve digestive and genitourinary function
/ Exercise, medication and tight glucose control

Preventing heart failure and coronary heart disease / Exercise, medication, diet

Source: Health Protection Associates