The downsides of taking medication for type-2 diabetes may exceed the benefits for some patients, researchers have advised.
Their study, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, argued elderly people had the least to gain.
The team at University College London (UCL) has called on doctors to discuss the risks more clearly with patients.
The charity Diabetes UK said doctors needed to strike a careful balance when prescribing treatment.
The report said an average 45-year-old who dropped their blood sugar levels by one percentage point would gain 10 months of healthy life, compared with three weeks for a 75-year-old starting treatment.
Commenting on the report, Simon O'Neill, the director for health intelligence at Diabetes UK, said: "Sometimes there is a balance to be struck where certain medications might help give someone a longer life, but also cause side effects that might negatively impact on quality of life.
Type-2 diabetes is an inability to control blood sugar levels and is linked to lifestyle factors including diet and obesity.
In the long-term it is linked to heart disease, kidney damage, nerve damage and even blindness.
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If Sam O'Neill, the director for health intelligence at Diabetes UK lived up to his job title, he would be recommending a diet far away from the diet of slow death his corrupt organisation promotes. As Tim Nokes said in the Cereal Killers film "If all diabetics adopted a low carb high fat diet 4 or 5 drug companies would go out of business" Not far from the truth I reckon. Diabetes UK are shills for the following pharmaceutical companies.
Abbott Bayer Boehringer Ingelheim Bristol Myers Squibb Bupa Bunzl Lilly Lloyds Pharmacy Menarini Merck Serono Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited Novartis Novo Nordisk Pfizer Rowlands Pharmacies Sanofi-aventis Takeda
The DUK dietary guidelines look more ridiculous with every passing day, does Sam know this ? if so, he is an assassin, and if he does not know, he is not fit for purpose and an idiot in my opinion ! Come on Sam tell us what you are, assassin or idiot ? you can't be both.
Eddie
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Good information and the correct information is so important when treating Type 2 diabetes, or any type of diabetes. This is why your blog plays an important daily role in so many people's life. Keep up your work, highlight the not so good information that so many still talk about. Change is coming but is slow. People need to be more aware of how they can control blood sugars better, they need to have information so they can make an informed choice.
Nona
Many thanks for your comment Nona, and yes, it is so important for all of us to have good information available. The internet/web with it's various contacts to blogs websites etc is invaluable.
Thanks for stopping by.
All the best Jan
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