Hyperglycemia is a common event in critically ill patients; therefore, careful control of blood sugar would seem to be a beneficial strategy. Prior reports have yielded conflicting results. This large ...

Intensive insulin therapy is extensively used to lower blood glucose concentrations in critically ill patients hospitalized within the intensive care unit. The discovery by the NICE-SUGAR study ...

We randomly assigned 11,140 patients with type 2 diabetes to undergo either standard glucose control or intensive glucose control, defined as the use of gliclazide (modified release) plus other drugs ...

This carefully designed meta-analysis combined results from 5 recent clinical trials to shed further light on the confusing question of whether intensive glycemic control reduces the risk for ...

Intensive early control of glucose levels in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) reduces the long-term risks of developing an impaired glomerular filtration rate (GFR), according to new ...

Two studies provide additional support for lowering systolic blood pressure to an intensive goal of 120 mmHg – far below the standard guidelines of 140 mmHg – to reduce the risk of heart disease in ...

Adults aged 50 and older who have a high cardiovascular risk can expect an additional 6 months to 3 years of life when they aim for more-intensive blood pressure goals, a secondary analysis of the ...

A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine shows that only 3.5 years of intensive blood pressure control continues to significantly reduce the risk of mild cognitive ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—In the SPRINT trial, patients who were treated to an intensive versus standard blood pressure goal had a lower risk of developing LV conduction disease, which hasn’t been considered ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients who had endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke with large-vessel occlusion, intensive ...

In observational studies, the relationship between blood pressure and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is direct and progressive. The burden of hypertension-related chronic kidney disease and ESRD is ...