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    Intense diabetes treatment prevents damage to vision

    graham64
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    Post by graham64 Fri Jun 17 2016, 21:39

    Although the study was stopped early because of increased death from intense treatment, researchers say the study suggests the method can prevent retinopathy progression.

    BETHESDA, Md., June 13 (UPI) -- Intense treatment of diabetes can help prevent damage to blood vessels in the retina that often leads to blindness, according to a long-term study by the National Institutes of Health.

    Researchers used aggressive treatment to maintain glycemic control, blood lipid levels and blood pressure, cutting the risk for developing diabetic retinopathy in half, they reported at the 76th scientific sessions of the American Diabetic Association.

    Uncontrolled or severe diabetes starts with micro-aneurisms in the eye or growth of new blood vessels in the eye that can leak, causing damage to sight over time, including blindness.

    In the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes, or ACCORD, study, researchers split participants into groups to test strategies to prevent the condition by aggressively treating either blood sugar levels, blood lipid levels or blood pressure, returning them as close to normal levels as possible.

    The researchers stopped the portion focused on glycemic control 3.5 years into a planned 5.6-year test because of an increase in death among participants, though patients being treated for blood pressure and blood lipid levels continued for the rest of the intended test period.

    Tight control of the condition improved health of patients, but did not reduce risk for cardiovascular disease. The treatment did, however, reduce the progress of retinopathy by about one-third.

    For the new study, published in the journal Diabetes Care, the researchers re-examined 1,310 patients who took part in the original ACCORD study to measure the progression of participants' retinopathy four years after treatment concluded.

    While measures of blood glucose between participants who received intensive and standard care remained similar to the end of the previous study, 5.8 percent of participants had seen advancement in their condition -- less than half the 12.7 percent of those receiving standard treatment whose condition progressed.

    "This study sends a powerful message to people with type 2 diabetes who worry about losing vision," Dr. Emily Chew, deputy director of the National Eye Institute's Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, said in a press release. "Well-controlled glycemia, or blood sugar level, has a positive, measurable, and lasting effect on eye health."

    http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2016/06/13/Intense-diabetes-treatment-prevents-damage-to-vision/3451465838796/?spt=sec&or=hn

    One day they may realise that low carb is the way to prevent retinopathy, intensive treatment with drugs to lower blood sugar is always going to be dangerous

    As an aside I was at the opticians for an eye test today and they do a retinal scan as part of the test, got the all clear yet again, no doubt when I have my diabetes annual scan later in the year it will be the same
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    Post by chris c Fri Jun 17 2016, 22:32

    I've known  not a few people who have reversed retinal damage with tight control. Same for kidney problems. They say it can't be done, but tight control using diet and no or minimal meds is a world away from HCLF and heroic amounts of meds. "Normal" BG is normal for a reason . . .
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    Post by yoly Sat Jun 18 2016, 10:39

    No drug is able to produce normal blood glucose control in a high carb diet, not even insulin. Not even so called artificial pancreas can predict with a enough precision the roller coaster that a high input of glucose will produce. In the first place body insulin goes thru the liver not your skin and even the same food can have a great variability on glucose in blood depending on many factors. The bigger the number of carbs the larger the variability and the amount of error. Plus there is the harm the extra insulin you need to put in your body, the weight gain etc...etc...
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    Post by graham64 Sat Jun 18 2016, 23:39

    Check out our friend Kath's experience with retinopathy in The Eyes Have It posts

    https://lowcarbdiabetic.forumotion.co.uk/f20-diabetic-complications-and-other-medical-problems

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