Abstract

ROLDAN VENCES, Alejandro; OJEDA CRUZ, Gabriela  and  ROLDAN VENCES, Emmanuel Alejandro. Diabetes mellitus type 2 treatment. Rev. Fac. Med. (Méx.) [online]. 2011, vol.54, n.1, pp.28-40. ISSN 2448-4865.

Currently diabetes is a sever and increasing public health problem that sets an important reduction in life expectancy and an increase in morbidity secondary to its complications. Therefore, patients suffering from diabetes mellitus (DM) types 1 or 2, require in their initial integral management exercise and a diet, along with the supplementary pharmacological management with oral and parenteral hypoglycemic agents (exenatide, insulin) for the appropriate control of glucose levels, which will diminish the chronic complications that this kind of patients usually have.

Keywords : diabetes; diagnosis; treatment.

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