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SAN DIEGO -- Afterparticipatingforl5 years in a landmark diabetes trial, patients with type 2 diabetes who received intensive glucose and blood pressure management are doing no better 5 years later than patients who received standard care.
Follow-up data collected after the UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) show that community-based care has been less than ideal for many of the patients--whether or not they were in the intensive management arm of the trial, Dr. Rury Holman said at the annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.
The unpublished findings "underline the difficulty in treating this progressive disease," said Dr. Holman, professor of diabetic medicine in the diabetes trials unit at the...
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