title: Critique of current therapies of noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
abstract: In summary, there are a number of therapeutic modalities, including life-style modifications and pharmacological intervention, available and useful in the treatment of NIDDM patients. Nonetheless, therapeutic success in the management of NIDDM remains highly dependent upon patient motivation, cooperation, and ability to comply on a regular basis with measures that are inconvenient and of modest efficacy in reversing the physiologic abnormalities of the NIDDM state. There remains considerable need for therapeutic tools of greater efficacy and of greater ease of application than the ones we currently have.
mesh_terms: D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy*; D003927:Diet, Diabetic; D006801:Humans; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007328:Insulin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008019:Life Style; D005082:Physical Exertion
chemical_list: D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents; D007328:Insulin