Many doctors are reviewing conventional thinking about low blood sugar levels in people with Type 2 diabetes.A study of diabetics with a high risk of heart disease known as ACCORD has found that lowering blood sugar levels to what is considered normal for healthy people proved deadly for some others.Older patients who underwent intensive therapy to reach that level had higher rates of death than a group of patients in the same study who were treated more conservatively.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Diabetes
Many doctors are reviewing conventional thinking about low blood sugar levels in people with Type 2 diabetes.A study of diabetics with a high risk of heart disease known as ACCORD has found that lowering blood sugar levels to what is considered normal for healthy people proved deadly for some others.Older patients who underwent intensive therapy to reach that level had higher rates of death than a group of patients in the same study who were treated more conservatively.
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