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Diabetes Knowledge and Its Relationship With Achieving Treatment Recommendations in a National Sample of People With Type 2 Diabetes

2012; American Diabetes Association; Volume: 35; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2337/dc11-1943

1935-5548

Sarah Stark Casagrande, Nilka Rı́os Burrows, Linda S. Geiss, Kathleen E. Bainbridge, Judith Fradkin, Catherine C. Cowie,

Diabetes Management and Education

We examined the prevalence of knowledge of A1C, blood pressure, and LDL cholesterol (ABC) levels and goals among people with diabetes, its variation by patient characteristics, and whether knowledge was associated with achieving levels of ABC control recommended for the general diabetic population.