Study Suggests Type 2 Diabetes Be Treated Intensively From The Start PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 10 September 2008 22:21
If your diabetes is treated intensively at the beginning, you stay healthier longer and that"s even if your blood sugar control tails off later on. That"s what a British study is suggesting. "Diet and exercise" might not be the first step in therapy any longer.

"We now know not only that good glucose control from the time type 2 diabetes is diagnosed reduces the rate of diabetic complications but also that this early intervention leads to sustained benefits in the longer term," Rury Holman of Oxford University, who led the study, said in a statement.

The new findings are derived from a study that began in 1998.

People given generic drugs in the sulfonylurea class to get their blood sugars down to desired levels had a 15 percent reduced risk of heart attacks and were 13 percent less likely to die than volunteers assigned to control their diabetes mostly with strict diet, the study found.

The impact was greater for people taking metformin, who had a 33 percent reduced risk of heart attack and were 27 percent less likely to die than those in the diet group.

Read the full Reuters article here.

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