Strict regimen pays off years later

From New Orleans, at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association

Diabetes patients who adhered to a tight program of blood sugar control over nearly 7 years starting in the 1980s are still showing heart benefits, even though most have slipped back into a less diligent routine of blood-sugar monitoring.

Twenty years ago, researchers enrolled 1,441 people with juvenile-onset, or type 1, diabetes in a study to gauge the value of rigorous blood-sugar control.