title: Why control diabetes?
abstract: The concept that appropriate therapy for diabetes should achieve levels of fasting and postprandial blood, serum, or plasma glucose values as close to those of the nondiabetic as possible may be philosophically correct, but in practice is most difficult to obtain.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001485:Basement Membrane / Q000473:pathology; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000097:blood / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D006943:Hyperglycemia / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000517:prevention & control; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose