{"id":708,"date":"2011-03-11T03:54:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T03:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?p=708"},"modified":"2014-09-27T18:00:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T01:00:38","slug":"aggressive-diabetes-therapy-may-raise-death-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"Aggressive Diabetes Therapy May Raise Death Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Study Shows Intensive Treatment to Lower Blood Sugar Is Linked to Increased Risk of Death <!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WebMD Health News &#8212; New results from a large government-run trial confirm that very aggressive treatment to lower blood sugar is associated with an increased risk of death in people with type 2 at high risk for heart attack and stroke.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-709\" title=\"type2diabetes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/type2diabetes-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"type 2 diabetes\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/type2diabetes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/type2diabetes.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The five-year follow-up from the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) study confirms findings that ended the trial\u2019s aggressive blood sugar control arm due to safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Read more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diabetes.webmd.com\/news\/20110302\/aggressive-diabetes-threapy-may-raise-death-risk\">http:\/\/diabetes.webmd.com\/news\/20110302\/aggressive-diabetes-threapy-may-raise-death-risk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study Shows Intensive Treatment to Lower Blood Sugar Is Linked to Increased Risk of Death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[15,17,136,54],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-vitamins-and-drugs","tag-diabetes","tag-ftc","tag-type-2-diabetes","tag-webmd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}