Association of tight glycaemic control with road crashes in diabetic patients

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 06:35 in Health & Medicine

A study from Canada published this week in PLoS Medicine suggests an association between tighter glycaemic control and an increased risk of a motor vehicle crash in diabetic adults. Using a population-based case control analysis over a 2 year period, Donald Redelmeier and colleagues from the University of Toronto studied the association between measured glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) in diabetic drivers and the risk of a motor vehicle crash...

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