UCSF Pepper Center, Co-Director and Co-Lead of the Data Analysis Core, Dr. Mike Steinman, and UCSF Co-Lead of the Pilot and Exploratory Studies Core, Dr. Sei Lee publish with Dr. Alexandra Lee on "Improving the American Diabetes Association Framework for individualizing treatment in older adults: evaluating life expectancy"
For older adults with type 2 diabetes, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Framework uses comorbidities and functional status to categorize patients by estimated life expectancy to guide individualization of glycemic treatment. In this study, they evaluated whether modifying the ADA Framework by removing three comorbidities and incorporating age could improve life expectancy stratification and better identify patients likely to benefit from intensive treatment.