Pitfalls of Diabetes Treatment Pathways

Last year, a national guideline-setting group abruptly withdrew a controversial diabetes standard it adopted in 2006 that called for aggressive control of blood sugar, or glucose. The change came after a large federal study indicated that lowering glucose too quickly or too much in some patients could harm or even kill them. 

In medical journal articles and elsewhere over the last year, some diabetes experts have lashed out at the group’s initial decision to approve the guideline, saying they warned back in 2006 that it was medically ill-advised for some patients. Click for the full story from The New York Times Aug., 18, 2009

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One has to be very careful with the advice as any reader may just get influenced and start following the same.