Medicographia N° 100 (Vol 31 – N°3 – 2009)

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New advances in the treatment of type 2 diabetes

MEDICOGRAPHIA No. 100!

• Medicographia
  J. Servier, France

EDITORIAL

• ADVANCE: setting new standards for optimal management of patients with type 2 diabetes. ADVANCE : nouvelles normes pour la prise en charge optimale des patients atteints de diabète de type 2
  J. Chalmers

THEMED ARTICLES

• Major findings from ADVANCE: blood pressure–lowering arm
  N. R. Poulter
• Major findings from the ADVANCE study: glucose-lowering arm
  M. E. Cooper
• Implications of ADVANCE in the management of blood pressure in diabetic patients
  B. Williams
• Implications of ADVANCE in the management of glucose lowering in diabetic patients
  D. R. Matthews
• The burden of vascular disease in diabetes and hypertension: from micro- to macrovascular disease—the “bad loop”
  H. A. J. Struijker-Boudier
• Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and their receptors (RAGEs) in diabetic vascular disease
  P. Marchetti
• How should future guidelines implement the results of ADVANCE?
  M. Marre

CONTROVERSIAL QUESTION

• Is microalbuminuria a marker for microangiopathy or macroangiopathy?
  M. Burnier – P. Fioretto – J. Gumprecht – G. Halaby – R. Unnikrishnan and V. Mohan – F. Puchulu – R. Roussel – G. Schernthaner – M. Shestakova – J.-G. Wang, Y. Li, and C.-S. Sheng

DIAMICRON MR – PRETERAX

• Management of type 2 diabetes: a multifactorial approach to a complex disease
  S. Laroche and S. Corda

INTERVIEW

• How can the results of ADVANCE be applied to daily clinical practice?
  J. Bringer

FOCUS

• Blood pressure, blood glucose, and diabetic renal disease
  C. E. Mogensen

UPDATE

• Will ADVANCE population genomic determinants improve upon
  biomarkers in predicting vascular complications of diabetes?
  P. Hamet and J. Tremblay

A TOUCH OF FRANCE

• Famous French diabetics
  C. Régnier
• Late Renoir, 1892-1919
  I. Spaak