Diabetes: Control - Slide 9

DCCT Findings

• Glucose control is key to preventing or delaying complications of diabetes

• Any sustained lowering of blood glucose helps, even if the person has a history of poor control

DCCT. New England Journal of Medicine, 329(14), September 30, 1993.

Note:

• The DCCT showed that tight glucose control slows the onset and progression of the microvascular complications of diabetes—eye, kidney, and nerve diseases.

• In fact, it showed that any sustained lowering of blood glucose helps, even if the person has a history of poor control.

Reference

The DCCT Study Research Group. New England Journal of Medicine, 329(14), September 30, 1993.

Revised November 2008