New research on type 2 diabetes reveals that lowering blood sugar levels earlier can prevent heart attacks.

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New research on type 2 diabetes reveals that lowering blood sugar levels earlier can prevent heart attacks.

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According to recent study from the University of Surrey, people with type 2 diabetes may need to lower blood sugar levels sooner than previously thought in order to avoid catastrophic cardiovascular events like heart attacks.

Lowering a person’s blood sugar levels within the first year of receiving a diabetes diagnosis can lessen the risk of serious cardiovascular events, according to the findings of a Surrey study. The researchers also discovered that the more variance in a patient’s blood levels 12 months after diagnosis, the higher the chance of serious cardiovascular events. The correlation between the two variables was used to discover this.

Dr. Martin Whyte, University of Surrey Professor of Metabolic Medicine and study co-author, had the following to say about the findings:

Type 2 diabetes, according to conventional thinking, should be controlled gradually and steadily over time with dietary and pharmaceutical dose adjustments. The length of time it took participants to lower their blood sugar levels after being diagnosed was assumed to be less relevant for vascular protection. However, the data from this current study implies that regulating blood sugar levels as soon as possible after a diabetes diagnosis – within the first 12 months — can dramatically lower the risk of cardiovascular events.

Type 2 diabetes is characterised by dangerously high blood sugar levels, which is a typical symptom. Obesity is a disease related with being overweight or having a family history of type 2 diabetes that raises the chance of acquiring serious illnesses.

Using the Research and Surveillance Centre of the Royal College of General Practitioners’ database, the University of Surrey looked into the relationship between the degree of glycemic control achieved within the first year after a diabetes diagnosis and subsequent blood sugar level variability as well as the occurrence of cardiovascular disease.

After the experiment was completed, the results were published in the journal Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism.


Story Source: Original release written by University of Surrey. Note: Content may be edited for style and length by Scible News.


Reference

Martin B. Whyte, Mark Joy, William Hinton, Andrew McGovern, Uy Hoang, Jeremy Vlymen, Filipa Ferreira, Julie Mount, Neil Munro, Simon Lusignan. Early and ongoing stable glycaemic control is associated with a reduction in major adverse cardiovascular events in people with type 2 diabetes: A primary care cohort studyDiabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 2022; DOI: 10.1111/dom.14705

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