Diabetes Study Partially Halted After Deaths

[Bouncer]

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 federal 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 Wednesday.

The researchers announced that they were abruptly halting that part of the study, whose surprising results call into question how the disease, which affects 21 million Americans, should be managed.

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[Gator_Mclusky]

I pay little attn to studies as they more times than not get proven false.
One day Butter is King then Margarine, then Margarine is poison!!!!!
It gets crazy!!!!!!!!

[Bouncer]

I pay little attn to studies as they more times than not get proven false.
One day Butter is King then Margarine, then Margarine is poison!!!!!
It gets crazy!!!!!!!!

a study is all about trial and error. all the info on drugs etc we have come from studies. you should pay a little more attention to them.