Guidelines for the treatment of the diabetes mellitus type 2. Argentine Society of Diabetes

Abstract

Objectives: 1) update the Guidelines for the Treatment of the Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 of the Argentine Society of Diabetes, published in 2010; 2) provide to the health team updated guidance for the therapeutic management of people with this disease. Material and methods: a group of experts, full members of the Argentine Society of Diabetes, was convened to analyze the papers available from different sources, classifying them according to their level of evidence (Table 2), written in bold at the end of the paragraph; on this basis the 2010 guideline was modified to update contents. A drafting committee responsable for the final layout of the document was appointed. Conclusions: changes in lifestyle remain the first therapeutic option, metformin is the drug of first line, if there are no contraindications for use or intolerance, any of the other families of antidiabetic drugs, insulin and insulin analogs, can be used as monotherapy or associated, taking into account their contraindicationsand not using together those with similar action mechanisms. Algorithms 1 and 2 can be considered the synthesis of the current proposal.

Keywords

• diabetes mellitus tipo 2
• guías
• tratamiento