Recent Content by John Barnes

This is the kind of a Smart Article: Intensified glucose lowering in type 2 diabetes: time for a reappraisal J. S. Yudkin & B. Richter & E. A. M. Gale. Diabetologia (2010) 53:2079–2085 DOI 10.1007/s00125-010-1864-z This is a piece where the Numbers Needed to Treat (NNT) is used: "In other...

Hi all: Do you know how to interpret another number (just as as Blood Glucose and HBA1C) known as NNT (Number Needed to Treat)? Do you know how to interpret another number known as NNH (Number Needed to Harm)? They are the best scientific ways to describe a treatment effect on a particular...

The real treatment of type 2 diabetes is preventing its complications. And this has not been proven (Very much the contrary) that is achieved with normal glucose or HBA1C levels. For sure these (glucose and HBA1c) are just loosen numbers, and definetely one size does not fit all. John Barnes

The Above mentioned Letter seems very logical to me, because I think of type 2 DM primarily as a high cardiovascular risk disease condition and NOT a primarily sugar disease "The Higher the Ignorance the Higher the Dogmatism" Sir William Osler