Clinical Review
A Shared Diabetes Clinic at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Fed Pract. 2012 April;29(4):15
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Maureen McQueeney, PharmD, BCPS, CDE; Stacey Lutz-McCain, MSN, FNP-BC, CDE; Margaret Chrymko, PharmD; Craig Bretz, RPh, CDE; and Deborah Kuntz, RD, LDN, CDE
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common disease that is becoming an epidemic in the United States. Diabetes can result in both microvascular and macrovascular complications. The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) revealed that tight control of blood glucose may help prevent the microvascular complications of diabetes.1