A new study from the University of Surrey suggests that controlling blood sugar levels within the first year of a diabetes diagnosis reduces the incidence of major cardiovascular events. Furthermore, the team also found that the more a patient's blood levels varied 12-months after diagnosis, the more likely they were to experience dangerous cardiovascular events.

Dr Martin Whyte, co-author of the study and Reader in Metabolic Medicine at the University of Surrey, said: "The conventional wisdom has been to slowly and steadily treat type 2 diabetes with diet and medicine dose-escalation over years -- the period over which it took people to reduce their sugar levels after diagnosis was thought less important for major vascular protection. However, our observational study suggests that getting blood levels under control quickly -- within the first 12 months after diagnosis -- will significantly help reduce cardiovascular events."

Know more: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/05/220511104941.htm

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