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Congratulations on your improved diabetes control and weight loss! As I mentioned, it's unclear if hypoglycemia might have provoked the findings seen in the ACCORD trial.
Clearly, since you have previously had a heart attack, you are at high risk of further cardiac difficulties, and based on the ACCORD findings, it might be prudent to keep your A1C in the general range of 7.0 to 7.9 -- which certainly seems counterintuitive!
I'd suggest you discuss the situation with your physician.
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In the article you mentioned that the people had 2 other risk factors. How do they know that it was "intense" diabetes treatment that created the increased danger of heart attack and not the "other risk factors"?
In brief, they don't...
I expect that additional analyses will be run on the data and that we'll eventually have information to address your concern.
Thanks for commenting!