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M. J. Friedrich

JAMA. 2006;296:1455-1456.

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Boston—Not only is diabetes the most common cause of kidney failure, blindness, and amputations in the United States, it is also a major cause of heart disease and stroke. While such traditional risk factors as hypertension and dyslipidemia contribute to cardiovascular disease in individuals with diabetes, evidence suggests that hyperglycemia is also a risk factor. For this reason, researchers have sought to discover whether intensive control of blood glucose levels can lower cardiovascular risk in people with diabetes.

Findings from the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) study recently showed that tight blood glucose control can enable people with type 1 diabetes to halve their risk of heart attack and stroke (The DCCT/EDIC Research Group. N Engl J Med 2005;353:2643-2653). Whether this is true for those with type 2 diabetes has yet to be determined, but ongoing studies such as the Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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