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Review
. 1978 Jul;62(4):747-52.
doi: 10.1016/s0025-7125(16)31770-9.

Why control diabetes?

Review

Why control diabetes?

H Rifkin. Med Clin North Am. 1978 Jul.

Abstract

The concept that appropriate therapy for diabetes should achieve levels of fasting and postprandial blood, serum, or plasma glucose values as close to those of the nondiabetic as possible may be philosophically correct, but in practice is most difficult to obtain.

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