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Article: Intense Blood Glucose Control Yields no Significant Effect on CVD Reduction in VA Diabetes Trial
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 8, 2008
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The American Diabetes Association issued the following news release:
A major long-term U.S. clinical trial to study whether intense control of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes would reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease found a reduction in cardiovascular events, but it was not statistically significant, according to a report presented here today at the American Diabetes Association's 68th Annual Scientific Sessions.
"This was a complicated study in which all of the patients had multiple health problems, including 40% with prior cardiovascular events. Our first goal was to reduce all other cardiovascular risk factors in order to compare outcomes between standard and intensive blood ...