U.S. government researchers have curtailed part of a major clinical trial on the treatment of diabetics, especially those at greatest risk.
The reason: study coordinators found that aggressively lowering blood sugar as close as possible to "normal" levels appeared to increase the risk of a fatal heart attack or stroke.
The study focused on 10,000 adults with Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease. The subjects also had cardiovascular disease or at least two contributing risk factors.
The National Institutes of Health halted the study 18 months early after recording 257 deaths among aggressively treated patients, compared to 203 fatalities among those given more standard care.
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