{"id":81520,"date":"2009-12-14T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T20:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/46656-looking-your-personal-opinions.html"},"modified":"2009-12-14T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T20:16:49","slug":"looking-for-your-personal-opinions-regarding-prediabetics-and-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/81520","title":{"rendered":"Looking for your personal opinions &#8211; regarding prediabetics and meds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Let&#8217;s take this hypothetical patient into consideration:<\/p>\n<p>5&#8217;11&quot; 220 lb 40 year old male.  FBS 121, A1c 6.0.  Cholesterol 220, Triglycerides 250, LDL 125, HDL 35.  Normal liver enzymes.  Slightly active lifestyle.  Typical &quot;American&quot; diet.  Assume he is not type 1 nor 1.5.  <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re a doctor for a day.  What is the advice you give this patient as his physician?<\/p>\n<p>Would you just tell him to diet and exercise and check back in a six months?  Would you just let it go?  Would you place him on meds?  Which meds?  Would you send him to classes?<\/p>\n<p>I realize that we are a VERY biased group since we have this condition, but I&#8217;m still curious about your answers.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take this hypothetical patient into consideration: 5&#8217;11&quot; 220 lb 40 year old male. FBS 121, A1c 6.0. Cholesterol 220, Triglycerides 250, LDL 125, HDL 35. Normal liver enzymes. Slightly active lifestyle. Typical &quot;American&quot; diet. Assume he is not type 1 nor 1.5. You&#8217;re a doctor for a day. What is the advice you give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}