Friday, June 26, 2009

For Type 2 Diabetes, Intensive control can reduced Cardiovascular Events.

For diabetics, Factors affecting whether intensive glucose control is likely to reduce or increase the risk of cardiovascular events, including death, based on evidence in the VA Diabetes Trial, were reported in a symposium here today at the American Diabetes Association's 69th Scientific Sessions.

"We found that initiation of intensive control in the first 15 years after a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes reduced the risk of cardiovascular events, including mortality, but initiation 16 to 20 years after diagnosis yielded no such benefit," said William C. Duckworth, MD, Director of Diabetes Research, Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix, Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Arizona, and Co-Chair of the VA Diabetes Trial (VADT), in a recent interview.

"Further, initiation of intensive control 20 or more years after diagnosis increased the risk of cardiovascular events in the population studied in this trial," said Duckworth. These duration effects were not affected by age, despite the fact that age itself is an independent risk for CV events.

In contrast to the VADT report last year showing that intensive control did not have a statistically significant effect on reducing cardiovascular (CV) events, the subanalyses presented here clearly showed which patients benefited from intensive glucose control and which patients did not.

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