Glucose balance crucial for diabetes sufferers
Published: November 24, 2012
Should everyone diagnosed with diabetes strive to have the lowest possible blood sugar? Not in every case.
New research suggests that in some individuals, the medications and treatments required to lower blood sugar to "optimal" levels may actually do more harm than good.
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A study called Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes looked at the effect that aggressively lowering a patient's A1C could have on their health. The study used over 10,000 individuals with diabetes in their research.
When medications and insulin were used aggressively to get A1C down to less than 6, the risk of death went up, not down.
This phenomenon can perhaps be explained by the fact that aggressively lowering glucose may make patients hypoglycemic, leading to risks of blackout or adrenaline rushes that may be stressful to the heart.
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