Glucose targets for preventing diabetic kidney disease and its progression.

CONCLUSIONS: This review suggests that people who receive intensive glycaemic control for treatment of diabetes had comparable risks of kidney failure, death and major cardiovascular events as people who received less stringent blood glucose control, while experiencing small clinical benefits on the onset and progression of microalbuminuria and myocardial infarction. The adverse effects of glycaemic management are uncertain. Based on absolute treatment effects, the clinical impact of targeting an HbA1c < 7% or blood glucose < 6.6 mmol/L is unclear and the potential harms of this treatment approach are largely unmeasured.
PMID: 28594069 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - June 8, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ruospo M, Saglimbene VM, Palmer SC, De Cosmo S, Pacilli A, Lamacchia O, Cignarelli M, Fioretto P, Vecchio M, Craig JC, Strippoli GF Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research