Diabetes: Control - Slide 11

United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS)

• Clinical Trial

• Looked at intensive management of blood glucose levels and long term risk-factors for diabetes complications in type 2 diabetes

UKPDS. BMJ. 2000; 321:405-412.

Note:

• The United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) was a 20 year clinical trial co-coordinated by the Diabetes Research Laboratories at Oxford.

• The UKPDS was designed to determine whether intensive management of type 2 diabetes in controlling blood glucose levels resulted in a reduction in long term diabetes complications compared with standard care.

Reference

Stratton IM, Et al. Association of glycemia with macrovascular and microvascular complications of type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 35): Prospective observational study. BMJ. 2000; 321:405-412.

Revised November 2008