Re: [IPp] Type 1 Diabetes Complications Becoming Less Common
Thanks, Rachel!
how do they define conventional and intensive therapy?
----- Original Message -----
From: Rachel A <email @ redacted>
Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009 3:24 am
Subject: [IPp] Type 1 Diabetes Complications Becoming Less Common
> A good news article!
>
>
> http://www.modernmedicine.com/modernmedicine/Endocrinology/Type-
> 1-Diabetes-Complications-Becoming-Less-
> Common/ArticleNewsFeed/Article/detail/614917?contextCategoryId=40131
> Type 1 Diabetes Complications Becoming Less CommonStudy finds
> intensivetreatment reduces frequency of eye, kidney and heart disease
> Publish date: Jul 29, 2009
>
>
>
> WEDNESDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) --
> Intensive therapy to treat type
> 1 diabetes mellitus reduces the frequency of serious
> complications over the
> long term, according to a study published in the July 27 issue
> of the *Archives
> of Internal Medicine*.
>
> David M. Nathan, M.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital and
> Harvard Medical
> School in Boston, and colleagues analyzed data on 1,441 patients
> participating in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial,
> which ran
> from 1983 to 1993 and assigned patients to either conventional
> or intensive
> treatment; and 161 patients from the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of
> DiabetesComplications study.
>
> Patients treated intensively had lower incidences of proliferative
> retinopathy, nephropathy and cardiovascular disease than those treated
> conventionally, and less than 1 percent of them became blind,
> underwentamputation, or needed kidney replacement because of
> diabetes, the
> researchers discovered.
>
> "With the demonstration by the Diabetes Control and
> Complications Trial in
> 1993 of the beneficial effects of intensive therapy, largely
> attributable to
> the lowering of the level of chronic glycemia, intensive therapy
> has been
> universally recommended," the authors write. "The future of type
> 1 diabetes
> mellitus care will need to address improved implementation of
> intensive care
> to reduce patient burden and the risk of hypoglycemia; however, until
> prevention or cures are developed, intensive therapy must be
> implementeduniversally and as early as is practical and safe to
> ensure the health of
> persons with type 1 diabetes mellitus."
>
>
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