Long-term Study Shows Brain Function Not Impaired By Tight Diabetes Control And Hypoglycemia
Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:00 AM EST
... The landmark Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) funded by the National Institutes of Health, which followed 1,441 people with type 1 diabetes for a decade until 1993, showed conclusively that tight blood glucose control significantly reduces the risk of developing complications of diabetes such as eye, kidney and nerve disease. [click link for full article] ...
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- Long Term Care
- Hypoglycemia
- Hyperglycemia
- Acute Care
- Diabetes - Type 1
- Diabetes - Type 2
- Pain Control
- Long Term Care/ltc
- Diabetes Insipidus
- Birth Control
- Chronic (long-term) kidney failure
- Vegetative state (long-term coma)
- Complications due to long-term catheter use
- Long-term incontinence or urinary retention
- Gestational Diabetes
- Brain Tumor
- Weak bones (osteomalacia) and osteoporosis (due to very long-term cholestasis)
- Brain Cancer
- Caregiving
- Brain Aneurysm

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