WASHINGTON | One week after researchers announced that pushing down blood sugar levels as close as possible to normal might be dangerous for high-risk diabetes patients, a similar study has found no such risk.</p><p>The seemingly conflicting findings, released Wednesday, stoked the new uncertainty about the best strategy for treating type 2 diabetes, one of the most common health problems in the United States and elsewhere.</p><p>“This unfortunately just makes things more confusing,” said Richard Kahn of the American Diabetes Association. “I think patients will be confused. I think doctors will be confused. So I think the message is: Don't do anything until we get this sorted out.”</p><p>Federal health officials said there were a variety of possible explanations for the differing findings, and they planned to meet with their counterparts at the new international study to try to explain the results.</p><p>“Hopefully when we sit down and look at the data we'll come up with some mutual conclusions,” said Denise Simons-Morton of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.</p><p>More than 21 million Americans have type 2 diabetes, which has become more common because of the increase in obesity.
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