A recent study of ten thousand people of middle-age and older with Type 2 diabetes has disproved a traditional conviction that if people with diabetes lessen their blood sugar to normal levels the risk of death is reduced as well.

The received results have not been anticipated and thus faltered the conventional beliefs and caused confusion in relation to formulating new methods of treatment. It is to be mentioned that lowered blood sugar can protect from blindness and kidney disease as well as from amputation. Researcher, although stressing the need to change the regime of intensive blood-sugar lowering, still recommend consulting doctors in each particular case. Clearly, it will not be easy to explain to patients who had spent several years on diet and medication trying to keep their blood sugar low that they might stop doing that so carefully.

The discovered results do not mean that people should completely cease the treatment; nor can they explain the reasons for a rather high death rate from heart attacks among people with diabetes if compared to those without it. Obviously, the characteristics of processes occurring in the people’s organisms without diabetes differ from those of people who suffer from diabetes and strive to get their blood sugar low. It has been assumed that patients might suffer unintentional consequences or side effects from taking too many pills. As researchers say the interaction of different kinds of drugs and pills might occur in some unpredictable way. Another presumption is that the patients through enormous efforts have reduced their blood sugar too fast. This echoes the results of another earlier research which concluded that decreasing blood sugar very quickly could have negative impact of people’s health. If fact, it can worsen blood vessel disease in the eyes of people with diabetes. Meanwhile, a slow reduction of sugar levels can protect the blood vessels and allow the organism to adjust to the changes occurring in it.