Diabetes management

Diabetes management involves the person with diabetes, the doctor and other diabetes care professionals. Optimal treatment requires close interaction and collaborations among all parties.

Management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes have the same objective:

• To relieve symptoms caused by high blood glucose levels
• To achieve near-normalisation* of blood glucose over the long term, to delay or prevent the progression of complications
• Treatment of accompanying disorders such as hypertension and dyslipidaemia
• Improvement in quality of life
• Normal physical and psychological development in children

*In healthy people, fasting blood glucose values do not exceed 6.0 mmol/l, and 7.8 mmol/l - 1.5-2 hours after a meal.