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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Worsening metabolic control, serious diabetes complications, and the development of psychiatric conditions are the factors leading to worsened quality of life among those with type 1 diabetes in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) and its long-term follow-up study.
Moreover, those originally assigned to tight glycemic control in DCCT did not suffer reduced quality of life because of the greater burden of treatment, as had originally been feared. Rather, intensive treatment and the subsequent reduction of symptomatic complications helped maintain the long-term quality of life of patients with diabetes.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/808071
No, really? How surprising! 🙄 So people who were educated to look after themselves better and reduced risks of horrible complications were happier than those who lived in ignorance and got worse and worse?
Moreover, those originally assigned to tight glycemic control in DCCT did not suffer reduced quality of life because of the greater burden of treatment, as had originally been feared. Rather, intensive treatment and the subsequent reduction of symptomatic complications helped maintain the long-term quality of life of patients with diabetes.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/808071
No, really? How surprising! 🙄 So people who were educated to look after themselves better and reduced risks of horrible complications were happier than those who lived in ignorance and got worse and worse?