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Tight Glucose Control Helps Prevent Heart Disease in Type 1 Diabetes Right Click to Download MP3 File Brief Description: Transcript: Nathan: We have demonstrated that intensive therapy with the aim of lowering glucose levels, to as close to the non-diabetic range as we safely can also reduces the development of heart disease. In fact this intensive therapy reduced the development of heart attacks and strokes, death from heart attacks and stroke and other treatments that go along with heart disease by about 42 percent. Thornton: Type 1 Diabetes comprises ten percent of the diagnosed cases of diabetes in the United States and usually affects children and young adults. For more information about controlling glucose levels along with blood pressure and cholesterol visit the website www.niddk.nih.gov. From the National Institutes of Health, I'm Matt Thornton in Bethesda, Maryland. |
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