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Statement from the American Diabetes Association Related to ACCORD Trial Announcement
Date:2/6/2008

ACCORD data raises concerns; Group advises patients with diabetes to maintain good control of blood glucose and talk to their doctor

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to today's announcement by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, which sponsors the ACCORD (Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes) Trial to stop the intensive blood glucose (sugar) control sub-study in ACCORD due to safety concerns, the American Diabetes Association strongly encourages people with diabetes not to alter their course of treatment without first consulting with their health care team. The American Diabetes Association continues to encourage good control of blood glucose for the management of diabetes and its complications.

The ACCORD trial randomized patients with diabetes and vascular disease or multiple cardiovascular risk factors to an intensive treatment program targeting normal blood glucose values and an A1C less than 6 percent or a standard treatment program with an A1C between 7 percent and 7.9 percent. The intensive participants in ACCORD are now being switched to the standard treatment program because of an increased death rate in the intensive treatment program (14 deaths per 1000 patients per year versus 11 per 1000 patients per year in the standard treatment program; a difference of 0.3 deaths per 100 patients per year).

The American Diabetes Association continues to advise people with diabetes to strive for an A1C (a measure of long-term blood glucose control) of less than 7 percent. Recent data indicates that more than half of the population with diabetes in the U.S. have an A1C less than 7 percent and this overall level of glucose control appears to be of great benefit rather than harm.

The importance of glucose control in diabetes is firmly established. Evidence from the landmark Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT), and the U.K. Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) show t
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