The number of Americans with diabetes has been increasing at an alarming rate. At last count, 23 million Americans had the disease, but more than five million were unaware of it. Diabetes has a huge impact on health and longevity, but the recommendations for treatment have been changing lately. Doctors used to assume that getting blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol levels as close to normal as possible was the best approach. But results from the huge ACCORD study are throwing that assumption into question. Get the latest update on diabetes treatment, diet, and vitamin D.
Guests: John Buse, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine and Chief of Endocrinology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Diabetes Care Center there. He is past president of the American Diabetes Association.
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