This article is self-explanatory!
Tight Glucose Control May Provide Long-term Benefits in Diabetics
Rury R. Holman, FRCP, professor of diabetic medicine at the University of Oxford in the U.K., was not involved in EDIC study, but he saw similar results among patients with type 2 diabetes as cochair of the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS).
In an interview with Medscape, Dr. Holman said that while the benefits of tight glucose are well known, the persistence of the effect comes as a surprise.
“What we see is the same as we saw in the type 2 [diabetes] patients in UKPDS, which is there seems to be a continued protection from risk,” Dr. Holman said. “We called it a ‘legacy effect,’ they call it ‘metabolic memory.’ It’s partly statistical in that the groups are already at separate levels of risk, but I think both their analyses and ours suggest that the degree of risk protection is maintained. It probably takes a considerable amount of time for those benefits to be lost.”
Dr. Holman added, “What’s interesting today is that they’re still seeing it at seven and eight years, and that to me is interesting because that isn’t just reflecting the time scale or the separation initially.”
As I wrote earlier last week, control is an important quality measure.
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2 Responses to Long term benefits of tight control in diabetes
Living With Diabetes
June 11th, 2004 at 11:36 pm
Tight control IS important
This is why I like my pump, and why I work so hard, and I do document what is going on. DB’s Medical Rants » Long term benefits of tight control in diabetes I’m actually quite pleased how things have…
poormedicalstudent
June 14th, 2004 at 1:47 am
and this is a surprise how? damn, talk about common-sense research. what a waste.