No matter how well they control their blood sugar, people with type 1 diabetes have at least twice the normal risk of early death, a new study finds. The study included 34,000 people with type 1 diabetes. They were compared with nearly 170,000 non-diabetics. Their average age was 36 when the study began. Researchers kept track of them for an average of 8 years. During the study, 8% of those with diabetes and 2.9% of non-diabetics died. About 2.7% of diabetics and 0.9% of the other group died of heart disease or stroke. Risk of death was even higher for diabetics with poor control of their blood sugar. Those with the highest average blood sugar were 8.5 times as likely to die as those without diabetes. Their heart-related death rates were 10.5 times as high. Diabetics with the lowest average blood sugar were 2.4 times as likely to die during the study as those without diabetes. They were 2.9 times as likely to die of heart disease or stroke. People with slightly higher average blood sugar were no more likely to die than those with the lowest levels. The New England Journal of Medicine published the study. HealthDay News wrote about it November 19.
By Robert H. Shmerling, M.D. Harvard Medical School link here.
"No matter how well they control their blood sugar, people with type 1 diabetes have at least twice the normal risk of early death"
Like so many things in life, it's not what you do, it's how you do it. Ramming BG numbers down with medication to cover high carb meals is never going to work, and that is a proven fact.
Eddie
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4 comments:
I'm going to take my chances with lchf. I'm betting on carbs being the reason for inflammation leading to the heart problems and strokes.
Mrs Vimes, before jumping to conclusions look at Harvard's Nutrition Source website, whole grains and other carb sources are recommended and saturated fat is replaced by mono or polyunsaturated (olive oil, rapeseed oil, oily fish), they say eat red meat just now and again and avoid bacon, sausages,salami etc. They have plenty of cutting edge research going on so this is NOT old stale advice.
Ray said...
Mrs Vimes, before jumping to conclusions look at Harvard's Nutrition Source website, whole grains and other carb sources are recommended and saturated fat is replaced by mono or polyunsaturated (olive oil, rapeseed oil, oily fish), they say eat red meat just now and again and avoid bacon, sausages,salami etc. They have plenty of cutting edge research going on so this is NOT old stale advice
Ray old chap don't you realise Mrs Vimes is not jumping to conclusions she has an A1c in the safe range something not achieved by 93% of fellow T1 diabetics, LC has allowed her to have less fluctuations and more stable BG levels this alone puts her in the low risk category.
If cutting edge research means adding whole grains this IS indeed old stale advice.
Kind regards
graham
I'm with you Graham!
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