Culprit Identified in ACCORD Study

Culprit Identified in ACCORD Study: First author of the new paper, Dr. Matthew C. Riddle commented that, "Newly published findings show that, rather than hypoglycemia being the culprit, as was originally thought.... [There] seems to be a problem that was specific to the subgroup of people who tried the intensive strategy but could not get their HbA1c levels down below 7, those who had persistently high HbA1c levels." So it wasn't really intensive therapy that was associated with the increased mortality, it was unsuccessful intensive therapy, he said. See this week's Item #1.