Teaching patients to monitor their risk factors retards the progression of vascular complications in high‐risk patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus—a randomized prospective study

Abstract

Well-informed and motivated patients were more insistent to reach and maintain target values of the main risk factors of diabetic complications. The differences between the PP and SC groups were of the same order of magnitude as those between intensive and standard care groups in other studies albeit with, comparatively, a very modest cost.