I really appreciate your quoting me. I almost feel useful. I read the paper, I appreciate your pointing me to it. But really it adds nothing to matter, it just rehashes what has already been reported. The ACCORD study was a huge waste. The intensive arm was almost all given Avandia, a drug now basically withdrawn from the market because it “kills people.” The fact that higher mortality was found in the intensive arm is meaningless, you can’t factor out the use of a known deadly drug since everyone used it.
This whole discussion of whether high blood sugars leads to complications and shortened lives has been going on for 100 years. Often studies are done which result in different findings and revealing truth can be difficult. Given the flaws in ACCORD it is very hard to suggest it should be used to overturn opposite results from other studies such as the DCCT. I am glad you like your diabetologist. I think if he were my doctor, I would be referring to him as my “former doctor.”