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 ...

However, the study did not prove that treating blood pressure to a goal of 120 mm Hg or less statistically reduced the risk of dementia. This result may have been due to too few new cases of dementia ...

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 ...

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 ...

Intensive blood pressure control may reduce the risk of atrial fibrillation (AFib), an irregular heartbeat that can lead to serious complications such as stroke, heart failure and heart attacks, ...

Whether intensive systolic blood-pressure control or standard control is better for cardiovascular risk reduction in patients with type 2 diabetes has been unclear. New research findings are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aggressive blood pressure treatment in older hypertensive patients lowers the incidence of cardiovascular events compared to standard therapy, without increasing adverse outcomes. That's the finding ...

Strategy reduced nephropathy risky by 21% in patients with type 2 diabetes, study finds. Intensive glucose control with gliclazide (modified release) and other agents reduced the risk of nephropathy ...