The Accord Trial

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The Accord trial was stopped.

This was the US trial that set out to show that if you were meticulous with your glucose control you had less heart disease. They were getting ever increasing deaths so the trial was stopped. The sister trial to show the same results in European patients had no such problems and continues.

It is my feeling that the United States has not treated their people with diabetes correctly in this study and in the ordinary care of people with diabetes. All my life I have seen people who could not gain control of their metabolism and glucose but for me it was a piece of cake.

“How did you do that?!” Their doctor would scream, “I used all the same medications you did!” Did they feel that my 6 years in metabolism training in diabetes was for nothing?

In such major trials, only diabetes specialists should be involved.