Aggressive Insulin Use In Type 1 Diabetes May Slash Risk Of Kidney Failure.
Bloomberg News (11/13, Cortez) reported, "Patients with type 1 diabetes who aggressively use insulin to keep their blood sugar in check slash their risk of subsequent kidney failure by half," according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, presented at the American Society of Nephrology's annual meeting, and funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. After tracking "kidney function in 1,375 patients with the most severe form of the disease who enrolled in the Diabetes Control and Complication Trial," researchers found that "patients who injected insulin at least three times a day to get their blood sugar to the same level seen in people without diabetes had half the risk of poor filtration and end-stage kidney disease a decade later," showing that "for the first time...treatment can avert the loss of kidney function that leads to organ failure, a process that was previously considered inexorable."
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-12/intensive-diabetes-treatment-cuts-kidney-damage-in-half-in-study.html
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