Posted on 09/09/2011 5:46:44 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
A study that the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) published recently shows just how dangerous the side effects of diabetes drugs are. The study is a meta-analysis, one that combines the results of several studies to more powerfully estimate the real effect of something. In this case that something is the diabetes drugs that most of us take.
The BMJ editors thought that the article is so important that they made the full-text free online. You may want to read through its dense, scientific language for yourself. Here is a taste from the concluding paragraph: “The overall results of this meta-analysis do not show a benefit of intensive glucose lowering treatment on all cause mortality or cardiovascular death. A 19% increase in all cause mortality and a 43% increase in cardiovascular mortality cannot be excluded.”
Note that the meta-analysis reviewed studies of intensive glucose-lowering treatments. Still, as the authors point out, “It is paradoxical to propose intensive glucose lowering treatment when available drugs have no proved intrinsic efficacy.”
Does this mean you should throw away your pills? I would never give that advice. Instead, I urge as many of us as possible to use the safest diabetes drugs that we can and only as a temporary measure. When you and your doctor agree that you are managing your diabetes well enough with your diabetes drugs, you can then become drug-free with the only alternative that works.
(Excerpt) Read more at healthcentral.com ...
“bottom of his foot fell off”
That is one of the creepiest sentences I have ever read !!!!
I second that. Yuk
Melissa
I beleive the use of high fructose corn syrup is causing a lot of the new cases.
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