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"Lancet 2010: There is a U-shaped relationship between glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels and mortality in people with diabetes, say researchers, meaning that intensive glucose-lowering therapy could be as harmful as uncontrolled hyperglycemia.\n\nWriting in The Lancet, Craig Currie and team (Cardiff University, UK) conclude that if their findings are confirmed, then diabetes guidelines may need to be revised to include a lower as well as an upper HbA1c threshold.\n\nCurrie's team used the UK General Practice Research Database from November 1986 to November 2008 to obtain data on two cohorts of patients aged 50 years and older with Type 2 diabetes.\n\nThe patients comprised 27,965 individuals whose treatment had been intensified from oral monotherapy to combination therapy with oral blood-glucose lowering agents, and 20,005 who had changed to insulin-containing regimens."

Discussion of both preventive and therapeutic doses / protocols for Vitamin D3 for influenza. Discussion of actual / potential harm in flu shots.

Rhabdomyolysis is more frequent than reported in medical journals, by pharmaceutical companies, and other standard avenues of information on adverse side effects in drugs. Polyneuropathy is an increased risk in diabetics... [I must FIND STUDIES, ETC. to support this blogpost]