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Expanding Treatment Options for Youth With Type 2 Diabetes: Current Problems and Proposed Solutions
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Tamborlane, William V. Haymond, Morey W. Dunger, David B. Shankar, R. Ravi Gubitosi-Klug, Rose A. Bethin, Kathleen E. Karres, Janina S. Tomasi, Paolo A. Libman, Ingrid M. Hale, Paula H. Portman, Ronald J. Klingensmith, Georgeanna J. Reed, Michael D. Blumer, Jeffrey L. Giacoia, George P. |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | The Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act of 2002 mandated that the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) carries out critical reviews of the gaps in knowledge and unmet needs regarding safe and effective pharmacologic treatment of infants, children, and adolescents in a broad range of disease areas. In 2012, NICHD selected diabetes mellitus as one of the pediatric disorders for review. Dr. William V. Tamborlane was named chair, and Dr. Linda DiMeglio, vice-chair, of the Diabetes Working Group. Together with Dr. George Giacoia of NICHD, they assembled a distinguished group of medical experts in childhood diabetes, including clinicians/clinical investigators from leading academic centers and from industry and representatives from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the European Medicines Agency (EMA), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), to carry out this review. It is very important to note that the views expressed in this article, as well as in other reports from the Diabetes Working Group, are the personal views of the authors and may not be understood or quoted as being made on behalf of or reflecting the position of the FDA or EMA or any of the organizations or pharmaceutical companies represented in our working group. As shown in Supplementary Table 1, the large Diabetes Working Group was divided into five committees: Type 1 Diabetes (T1D): Therapeutics, Type 2 Diabetes (T2D): Therapeutics, T1D: Natural History and Biomarkers, T2D: Natural History and Biomarkers, and Diabetes Pharmacology. The consensus of the T2D Therapeutics Committee was that its efforts should address the crisis in care that clinicians face in treating this disorder in adolescents. Despite a plethora of new drug classes and new agents within each class that have been approved for use in adults with T2D, in … |
| Starting Page | 323 |
| Ending Page | 329 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.2337/dc15-1649 |
| PubMed reference number | 26908928 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 39 |
| Journal | Diabetes care |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/diacare/39/3/323.full.pdf?legid=diacare%3B39/3/323&patientinform-links=yes |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.2337/dc15-1649 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
