Diabetics' Heart Attack Risk Can Be Reduced, Research Finds

This is a large study of 33,000 diabetics surprisingly it did not get the same publicity as the recent 12 week study of the “poor baby mice”.

Dr Ray concluded: "The present findings reinforce the need for diabetic patients to achieve and maintain better control of blood sugars long-term, as a means to reduce risk of heart disease."

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 200807.htm

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lance ... 40-6736(09)60697-8/abstract

Graham

Hi Timo you crack me up mate good stuff :lol:

On a more sombre note I've heard the Three Blind Mice were really lab mice subjected to a DUK research study on the effects of their recommended starchy carb low fat diet. This led to blindness, and having their appendages surgically removed, because of diabetic complications.

Poor baby mice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ISFuM7 ... re=related

Don't watch this one if your squeamish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLiyWaRvO-k&NR=1

Cheers
Graham

Back later phoenix :wink:

Hi Phoenix,
If you look at the posts in three different threads covering the same topic, you will find about 85 replies to a 12 week study on mice. Only Hana's thread Poor Baby Mice has so far got no response even though she makes a very valid point.

The thread concerning real diabetics in a long term study got only 13 replies, which begs the question was the original mice thread started in the non LC forum rather than the the Discussions forum just to provoke the Low Carbers rather than promote serious debate.

You seem to consider a 12 week study on mice to be valid, and yet dismiss out of hand the many short term 6 to 12 month LC studies as obscure (your words) and therefore irrelevant, even though time after time they come up with the same conclusion re the health benefits of following a LC diet.

If you look at the many thousands of people treated by Bernstein, Clarke, Lutz etc. if the mice studies conclusions were correct, surely then their patients would be dropping like flies. If this was the case then without doubt the promoters of the “Healthy” low fat and starchy carb diets would be shouting from the rooftops, the silence is deafening.

Graham xx

lionrampant said:

People with diabetes who maintain intensive, low blood sugar levels are significantly less likely to suffer heart attacks and coronary heart disease, new research published in The Lancet has shown.

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Well that was money well spent...

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Of course it states the obvious, but it seems that many of our HPs are unaware of this and with pressure from the PCTs, are denying T2s the option of testing. A study such as this only reinforces the need to test to get optimal BG levels.

Graham