But what about kidney failure?
I’m about to go on both high blood pressure and T2 diabetes medication.I loath taking pills,even aspirin.
So this sounds good to me.
“But what about kidney failure?”
See post 3 for more detail and original link:
“Keeping a tight rein on blood glucose in type 2 diabetes patients did nothing to prevent retinopathy, nephropathy, or neuropathy in the closely watched VA Diabetes Trial, researchers here said.
With a median of 5.6 years of follow-up, rates of microvascular complications did not differ significantly between diabetic veterans who received standard care and those randomized to a regimen of tight glycemic control, reported William Duckworth, M.D., of the Phoenix VA Health Care Center and colleagues online in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Median levels of glycated hemoglobin reached in the trial were 8.4% with standard therapy and 6.9% in the intensive treatment group.”
This is not to say that people should ignore the guidelines, but it seems the numbers are not as cut and dried as endocrynologists are trying to make their patients believe.
Just saw this article:
Vitamin B1 Could Reverse Early-stage Kidney Disease In Diabetes Patients
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081208092149.htm
Researchers at the University of Warwick have discovered high doses of thiamine - vitamin B1 - can reverse the onset of early diabetic kidney disease.
Kidney disease, or diabetic nephropathy, develops progressively in patients with type 2 diabetes. Early development of kidney disease is assessed by a high excretion rate of the protein albumin from the body in the urine, known as microalbuminuria.
The research is led by Dr Naila Rabbani and Professor Paul J Thornalley at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Punjab and Sheik Zaid Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.
The team has discovered taking high oral doses of thiamine can dramatically decrease the excretion of albumin and reverse early stage kidney disease in type 2 diabetes patients.
In a paper published online in the journal Diabetologia, the team show 300 mg of thiamine taken orally each day for three months reduced the rate of albumin excretion in type 2 diabetes patients. The albumin excretion rate was decreased by 41% from the value at the start of the study. The results also showed 35% of patients with microalbuminuria saw a return to normal urinary albumin excretion after being treated with thiamine.