PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jacobson, Anne
ED  - Holman, Rury R.
TI  - Benefits of Early Glucose Control Maintained after 10 Years in UKPDS
DP  - 2008 Nov 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 12--13
VI  - 8
IP  - 7
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/8/7/12.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/8/7/12.full
AB  - Early intensive glucose-lowering provides long-term protection against major diabetes outcomes as well as myocardial infarction and all-cause mortality, according to new 10-year follow-up data from the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS). However, the benefits of tighter blood pressure control that were observed in 1997 were not maintained in the 2007 analysis of UKPDS.