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Article: A tighter rein on diabetes. (importance of monitoring blood sugar levels)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- June 28, 1993
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As Karen Bearden sees it, pricking her finger six to 12 times a day is a small price for avoiding the disabling, possibly deadly complications of diabetes. Bearden, 37, was one of 1,441 participants in a just concluded, landmark study by the National Institutes of Health. Its message, to Bearden and the nation's 1.4 million other insulin-dependent--or Type I--diabetics: They should be much more attentive to their blood sugar than many of them, or their doctors, had thought. Announced last week at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association, the decade-long study's findings are expected to revolutionize treatment. People with non-insulin-dependent diabetes, ...