Watch "Session 34. The ACCORD Study.- Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes University" on YouTube

[Thyroiddiabetic]

I can't believe what I have heard from Dr Bernstein on this video.
Explains why the Accord study was fiddled and that having a 20 % chance of increased mortality from tighter blood sugar control is not true.
Been really worried about this study as mentioned in my previous post from Dr Jason Fung since the results of the study never made any sense.

 

[tim2000s]

If you go and take a look at the ACCORD study reports and here, you'll find that what it says is:

patients in the intensive-therapy group who had not had a cardiovascular event before randomization (P for interaction=0.04) or whose baseline glycated hemoglobin level was 8.0% or less (P for interaction=0.03) may have had fewer fatal or nonfatal cardiovascular events than did patients in the standard-therapy group

Suggesting that the key risks for intensive therapy and CV events were either a previous CV event and/or a higher starting Hba1C that was lowered rapidly. Or in other words, those with neither of the above given intensive therapy had fewer CV events than the standard therapy cohort.

Even the authors of the various papers that have been written about ACCORD recognise that there are many questions that remain to be answered and need further research.

Worth having a read through if you are concerned. I'm not sure the results were fiddled, but as it's a set of statistical data, you can report this in many ways, and that seems to be his biggest complaint in the video. That the headlines that were made from the study reflected an incorrect view of what the study really found.

 

[Thyroiddiabetic]

If you go and take a look at the ACCORD study reports and here, you'll find that what it says is:


Suggesting that the key risks for intensive therapy and CV events were either a previous CV event and/or a higher starting Hba1C that was lowered rapidly. Or in other words, those with neither of the above given intensive therapy had fewer CV events than the standard therapy cohort.

Even the authors of the various papers that have been written about ACCORD recognise that there are many questions that remain to be answered and need further research.

Worth having a read through if you are concerned. I'm not sure the results were fiddled, but as it's a set of statistical data, you can report this in many ways, and that seems to be his biggest complaint in the video. That the headlines that were made from the study reflected an incorrect view of what the study really found.

Thanks for the additional info.
Trying to get my hb1 to 3.7 or 4 from 5.4 to Bersteins recommended levels so I'm pleased I will not necessarily increase my mortality risk.