A week after the medical community was stunned by research showing that aggressive treatment of diabetes produced a higher death rate, a new analysis by a separate team of researchers has found that intensive treatment does not pose such a risk.
The take-home message from the back-to-back studies - the first led by a team of American researchers, the latest by Australians - is not one of scientific flip-flopping but one of taking a wait-and-see approach, doctors said yesterday. Neither study is the be-all and end-all of diabetes research.
"I think our current goal for achieving [blood sugar] control in patients with type 2 diabetes is based on information accumulated over decades," said Dr. Kenneth Hupart, chief of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolic disorders at Nassau University Medical Center.
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