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Computer based diabetes self management interventions may have small beneficial effect on HbAic compared with usual care in adults with type 2 DMComputer-Based Diabetes Self-Management Interventions for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
There appears to be no difference for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality when targeting intensive glycaemic control compared with conventional glycaemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes. Targeting intensive glycaemic control may reduce the risk of microvascular complications, but it increases the risk of hypoglycaemia and might possibly increase total mortality in a population of patients with high prevalence of cardiovascular disease .

Primary prevention with low-dose aspirin appears to be less (and only marginally) effective in patients with type 2 diabetes than primary prevention in patients with other cardiovascular risk factors or secondary prevention in patients with cardiovascular disease. The effect may be confined to elderly individuals Low-Dose Aspirin for Prevention of Vascular Events in Type 2 Diabetes.

Home P, Mant J, Diaz J, Turner C, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group. Management of type 2 diabetes: updated NICE guidance. BMJ 2008;336:1306-8.

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