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d States. This form of diabetes usually strikes children and young adults, who need three or more insulin injections a day or treatment with an insulin pump to maintain the level of blood glucose control shown to prevent or delay long-term complications. Most people with type 1 diabetes who were treated with conventional glucose control, as it was defined before the DCCT, develop one or more complications, including damage to the heart and blood vessels, eyes, nerves, and kidneys. Today, such complications are much less likely to occur if patients begin intensive treatment promptly after the onset of diabetes.

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21-Dec-2005

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