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Article: New study on diabetes is stunning to doctors Blood-sugar target called into question
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- February 8, 2008
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Gina Kolata The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
02-08-2008
New study on diabetes is stunning to doctors Blood-sugar target called into question
Byline: Gina Kolata The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 3
Section: NEWS
For decades, researchers believed that if people with diabetes lowered their blood sugar to normal levels, they would no longer be at high risk of dying from heart disease. But a major U.S. study of more than 10,000 middle-aged and older people with Type 2 diabetes has found that lowering blood sugar actually increased their risk of death, researchers reported.
The researchers announced that they were abruptly halting that part of the study, whose ...