New research reveals why treatment might appear to fail to control glucose levels in many people with Type 2 diabetes: not taking their medication as prescribed.
“When patients have poor glycemic control, their physicians may assume that there was a medication failure when they were, in fact, not filling their prescriptions,” says Ken Mandl, MD, MPH, of Boston Children’s Hospital, the senior author of a new report in Diabetes Care.
The study raises the question of whether the same might be true for patients with other conditions. …