Diabetes Treatment Shows Mixed Results

Wed, 30 Jun 2010
Intensive drug treatments given to patients to reduce lower blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol in diabetics has minimal effect in terms of prevention of heart disease and strokes.

However, it does help prevent diabetic eye disease, nerve and kidney disease .

These are the findings of the five-year American study, presented at the American Diabetes Association recently.

There are now 20% more deaths amongst diabetics who suffer from heart troubles than in 2008.

The long-term results highlight that the use of additional drugs and adding a fibrate drug such as Abbott Laboratories' TriCor cholesterol drugs had minimal effect in terms of averting heart troubles.

However, it did help with other conditions, such as, diabetic eye disease, nerve and kidney disease in diabetics.

Therefore, not surprisingly intensive diabetes treatments are considered to have mixed results.

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