Prevalence of Achievement of A1c, Blood Pressure, and Cholesterol (ABC) Goal in Veterans with Diabetes

Comparison of HbA1c, blood pressure, and cholesterol (ABC) control in type 2 diabetes attending general medical clinics and specialist diabetes clinics in Thailand

“…The results of these studies show the prevalence of achievement of the individual A, B, and C targets, and achievement of all ABC, were consistent with our findings [8,9,19,20]. However, few studies have considered achievement of any, or number of targets achieved, as a measure of performance.…”

“…Many questions about the achievement of the ABC clinical targets of type 2 diabetes remain unanswered [7][8][9][10]. For instance, most studies have been conducted in a single or small number of hospital-based clinics [11,12], and the number of studies considering the effect of clinic type on achieving the ABC clinical outcomes is limited.…”

Achievement of partial combined control of major diabetes targets in primary care correlates with development of chronic complications in T2DM patients—A real life data

“…These findings, are in accordance with previous cross sectional reports, demonstrating a limited fulfillment of isolated or multiple ADA targets [1], Several other observational studies examined the triple ABC goal achievement. Sieng [33]. By the same token, a low dual goal achievement was also reported recently by others [34,35].…”

Current status of glucose, blood pressure and lipid management in type 2 diabetes clinic attendees in Isfahan, Iran

“…In the present study, 7.7% of type 2 diabetes clinic attendees met all three goals, which is higher than 5.2–7.3% reported in the USA during 1988–200021,22, 5.4% reported by an international survey from seven Asian countries29, 3.6% reported by the International Diabetes Management Practice Study30, 4.1% reported from Taiwan18, 5% reported from Italy36 and 7% reported from Canada35, but lower than 13.2–18.8% reported for the USA during 2003–2010, 17.3% reported in Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center 2008–200925, 10.1% in the Look Action for Health in Diabetes 2000–200426, 22% reported in community-based endocrinology practice study 2000–200427 and similar to 8.0% reported in the Polish patients with type 2 diabetes of more than 10 years' duration28. The differences in lifestyles; socioeconomic status; medical treatment system; the need for a team approach including doctors, nurses, nutritionists and physical therapists; and research methods could be the reason for the lower goal achievement in the present study.…”