{"id":635275,"date":"2010-01-19T20:48:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T01:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47789-bad-science.html"},"modified":"2010-01-19T20:48:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T01:48:50","slug":"bad-science-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/635275","title":{"rendered":"Bad Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Today&#8217;s New York Times reports that The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health has issued a non-binding recommendation against self-monitoring (with strips and meters) for many Type 2 diabetics who do not use insulin.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently there&#8217;s no benefit.  It seems a Canadian study, presumably read by the Agency, says that more than 1,000 people would need to use strips regularly to prevent a single case of kidney failure. <\/p>\n<p>Instead of relying on test strips, say these experts, patients need to be vigilant about diet, exercise, weight and &#8230; wait for it &#8230; blood pressure.  My experience has been that my BP came down after I got the diabetes under control &#8211; not the other way round. <\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;The message we&#8217;d like to impart to those living with T2 diabetes, is that it takes more than testing your blood to look after your health,&quot; <\/i>said Barb Shea, vice president of the health agency.   <\/p>\n<p>Well, to work off my irritation I&#8217;m going out for brisk drive through town now.  I will control my speed with pedals and gears but have covered up the speedometer so that I can&#8217;t read it.  Varooooom&#8230;. :driver:<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s New York Times reports that The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health has issued a non-binding recommendation against self-monitoring (with strips and meters) for many Type 2 diabetics who do not use insulin. Apparently there&#8217;s no benefit. It seems a Canadian study, presumably read by the Agency, says that more than 1,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Fgn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}