The results of a major government study on diabetes and heart disease shocked American medical researches, who were going to show that a long-trusted form of treatment for lowering blood sugar would yield even greater results. But the study has raised more questions.
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Study coordinators found that aggressively lowering blood sugar as close as possible to "normal" levels appeared to increase the risk of a fatal heart attack or stroke.
As a result
U.S. government researchers have cut short part of a major clinical trial on the treatment of diabetics, especially those at greatest risk.
Thus the researchers got quite the opposite result of what they tried to prove: that pushing blood-sugar levels below current targets in high-risk diabetics would be good for them.
The term diabetes, without qualification, usually refers to diabetes mellitus, which is associated with excessive sweet urine (known as "glycosuria") but there are several rarer conditions also named diabetes. The most common of these is diabetes insipidus in which the urine is not sweet (insipidus meaning "without taste" in Latin); it can be caused by either kidney (nephrogenic DI) or pituitary gland (central DI) damage.
Patient education, understanding, and participation is vital since the complications of diabetes are far less common and less severe in people who have well-controlled blood sugar levels.Wider health issues accelerate the deleterious effects of diabetes. These include smoking, elevated cholesterol levels, obesity, high blood pressure, and lack of regular exercise. According to a study, women with high blood pressure have a threefold risk of developing diabetes.
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