Intensive blood pressure and lipid managment does little against elevated cardiovascular risk in diabetes, according to results from the ACCORD study, again proving lower isn't always better.Better to be fit than get killed by the sick care system's efforts at "helping" you.
Using a blood pressure target of 120 mm Hg rather than the general population standard of 140 did not reduce the primary outcome of nonfatal MI, nonfatal stroke, and death from cardiovascular causes (1.87% versus 2.09% per year, hazard ratio 0.88, P=0.20), reported William C. Cushman, MD, of the VA Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn.
Fitness Watch is your site for making sense of fitness advice.
"Truth" has a shelf life.
The shelf life of "truth" is very short in the domains of fitness, health and well-being.
The reason is that so much of what we are told is "true" is really baseless.
At Fitness Watch we separate fitness information from fitness noise.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
ACC: Close Lipid and BP Control Fail in Diabetes
And the OOPs just keep on coming.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.