Intense Treatment Hopes for Diabetics Dashed

A recent study has found that type II diabetics that are taking additional drugs to lower blood pressure and fats saw no decrease in heart disease.

“Adding drugs to drive blood pressure and blood-fats lower than current targets did not prevent heart problems, and in some cases caused harmful side effects.”

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The study reveals that the fat and cholesterol lowering drugs had no effect on lower heart disease.  Important finding in this group was that though men saw a slight bump, women actually got worse.  Lets read that again, taking cholesterol lowering drugs increased the rate of heart attacks in diabetic women.  Now would be a good time to talk with your doctor  and evaluate that statin drug you are taking.

The blood pressure lowering drugs revealed roughly the same results, which means no decrease in heart disease.  The only ray of light in the study was that strokes saw a slight decrease with the blood pressure lowering medications.  So you have to ask your doctor and yourself, are these drugs helping?

Probably the most disturbing fact of the whole study: The intense blood sugar lowering medications were stopped three years into the study when they noticed that heart disease was INCREASING and not decreasing.

The best alternative for diabetics is to get to the bottom of the problem and see why they have diabetes, and ask why are they just treating symptoms.

Dr Stafford

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Article by Dr. Charles Stafford, Type 2 Diabetes Professional, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX