A recent study revealed that the best way to counter diabetes after the diagnosis is to give the patients a strong drug treatment instead of getting them to diet and exercise. British researchers who conducted the study said that it would be even better to prescribe drug treatment to patients diagnosed just with type 2 diabetes because this way they would become healthier as they grow old despite the fact that, with age, they also become less careful with controlling their blood sugar.

"We now know not only that good glucose control from the time type 2 diabetes is diagnosed reduces the rate of diabetic complications but also that this early intervention leads to sustained benefits in the longer term," Rury Holman of Oxford University. The findings of the study were reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.

A patient with type 2 diabetes is slowly losing the ability to correctly use insulin in order to convert food into energy. As a consequence, the sugar level grows threatening to damage the eye and the kidneys. The high level of sugar can also lead to heart diseases and limb amputations.

Of course, Patients and doctors were aware that controlling blood sugar and blood pressure were elementary measures in managing diabetes. However, the novelty of this study is that controlling the diabetes promptly and vigorously after the diagnosis is very important as it reduces the risk of heart attack and keeps the cardiovascular system healthier.

A similar study – conducted by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation - showed that patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes who use Continuous Glucose Monitoring devices (GCM) are controlling the sugar levels in their blood remarkably better. The findings of the research were presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes' annual meeting in Rome.