Benefits Lasting for Tight Diabetes Control

Early, tight control of blood sugar can have long-lasting benefits for diabetics, a study has found. The new study followed up an earlier, 10-year study. In that study, people had been just diagnosed with diabetes. They were assigned to control blood sugar with diet or medicine. Those who took medicine achieved lower blood sugar. The new study looked at them 10 years after the first one ended. The two groups no longer had different blood sugar levels. But those whose sugar was lower in the earlier study still had a 15% lower risk of heart attack. They had a 13% lower risk of death. The Associated Press wrote about the study September 10. It was published online by the New England Journal of Medicine.