Doctors, do not forget to advise your diabetic patients to exercise

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spelling 11436 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/view.php?ref=11436 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/search.php?search=!collection407072 Restricted Document Article Journal application/pdf 2 1.6 Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 20 Paper Capture Plug-in Atif Baig 2018-01-04 14:10:21 5679-01-FH02-FP-18-12611.pdf UniSZA Private Access Doctors, do not forget to advise your diabetic patients to exercise Asian Journal of Medicine and Biomedicine As primary care doctors, treating patients with Type 2 DM is our bread and butter, as the majority of them seek treatment at health clinics. It is true that some of the patients have managed to achieve good glycaemic control, but more than half of them still have poorly controlled blood sugar as compared to the clinical practice guideline recommendation [1]. And usually, the first thing that comes to our mind when seeing these patients is to increase the dosage of anti-diabetic medication that they are currently on or to add another agent, including insulin. We also frequently tell them that the high blood sugar level is not surprising, as such is the nature of diabetes, where the worsening of blood sugar is expected due to progressive deterioration of pancreatic beta cell function. 1 1 17-18
spellingShingle Doctors, do not forget to advise your diabetic patients to exercise
summary As primary care doctors, treating patients with Type 2 DM is our bread and butter, as the majority of them seek treatment at health clinics. It is true that some of the patients have managed to achieve good glycaemic control, but more than half of them still have poorly controlled blood sugar as compared to the clinical practice guideline recommendation [1]. And usually, the first thing that comes to our mind when seeing these patients is to increase the dosage of anti-diabetic medication that they are currently on or to add another agent, including insulin. We also frequently tell them that the high blood sugar level is not surprising, as such is the nature of diabetes, where the worsening of blood sugar is expected due to progressive deterioration of pancreatic beta cell function.
title Doctors, do not forget to advise your diabetic patients to exercise
title_full Doctors, do not forget to advise your diabetic patients to exercise
title_fullStr Doctors, do not forget to advise your diabetic patients to exercise
title_full_unstemmed Doctors, do not forget to advise your diabetic patients to exercise
title_short Doctors, do not forget to advise your diabetic patients to exercise
title_sort doctors, do not forget to advise your diabetic patients to exercise