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...Some experts note that while the rate of heart disease in the people without diabetes may be improving - due in part to increasing efforts to lower patients' cholesterol and blood pressure, among other risk factors - diabetes patients who have already had heart attacks appear not to be benefiting as much from the same preventive measures, and continue to suffer and die from higher-than-average rates of heart problems...
...decrease the bad outcomes in people who get heart disease within the setting of diabetes?" says Dr. David Nathan, director of the diabetes center at Massachusetts General Hospital. "There is just no clear answer to that...
...fact, the answers are sometimes conflicting. In March, scientists from Australia and New Zealand reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that aggressively lowering blood sugar in diabetes patients who have had a heart attack does not reduce their future risk of heart disease, but in fact puts these patients at higher risk of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and death. Meanwhile, in the current issue of JAMA, another study found that intensive blood-glucose therapy in diabetes patients was not linked with greater mortality...
...Such results make it difficult to know for sure whether the risks of abnormally high or abnormally low levels of glucose are more dangerous for diabetes patients who land in the hospital with a heart attack and high blood sugar levels. "It's a moving target," says Nathan. "But we are winning the battle. It's been an incredibly exciting several decades in diabetes research, but a lot more work needs to be done. We know what we need to do, we just need to apply what we learn better - to the right patients at the right time...
...nascent interest in literature. Though he concentrated in biology at Harvard, he realized during his junior year that his true calling was English, not medicine. After his work was accepted and published by the Advocate, Mao describes feeling encouraged. “The Advocate helped me feel where my heart was going,” he says.THE ADVOCATE TODAY Clad in a wrinkled button-down shirt and worn sweatshirt, Advocate President Sanders I. Bernstein ’10, a former Crimson Arts executive, looks the picture of a romanticized poet. With an unruly tangle of hair and dark circles under...