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Intensive glucose control protects against diabetics
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newsbyte on 10 June, 2008 05:39:58
 
The world's largest study of diabetes treatments has concluded that intensive
blood glucose control protects against complications.
The therapy, using modified release of gliclazide, reduces the risk of kidney
disease by a fifth and shows that the intensive strategy can potentially benefit
millions of diabetics worldwide.
Diabetes mellitus afflicts 250 million people and is likely to shoot up to 380
million in 2025, according to the results of ADVANCE (Action in Diabetes and
Vascular disease).
"We are facing a global epidemic of diabetes we have now shown that reducing
the haemoglobin A1c level (blood glucose control marker) to 6.5 per cent is a
safe and effective way to reduce serious complications, particularly the risk of
kidney disease, said Stephen MacMahon, director George Institute, Australia."
These findings appeared on Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.