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Follow-up of blood-pressure lowering and glucose control in type 2 diabetes

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Zoungas, Sophia, Chalmers, John, Neal, Bruce, Billot, Laurent, Li, Qiang, Hirakawa, Yoichiro, Arima, Hisatomi, Monaghan, Helen +20 more·2014·New England Journal of Medicine

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BACKGROUND: In the Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron Modified Release Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) factorial trial, the combination of perindopril and indapamide reduced mortality among patients with type 2 diabetes, but intensive glucose control, targeting a glycated hemoglobin level of less than 6.5%, did not. We now report results of the 6-year post-trial follow-up. METHODS: We invited surviving participants, who had previously been assigned to perindopril-indapamide or placebo and to intensive or standard glucose control (with the glucose-control comparison extending for an additional 6 months), to participate in a post-trial follow-up evaluation. The primary end points were death from any cause and major macrovascular events. RESULTS: The baseline characteristics were similar among the 11,140 patients who originally underwent randomization and the 8494 patients who participated in the post-trial follow-up for a median of 5.9 years (blood-pressure-lowering comparison) or 5.4 years (glucose-control comparison). Between-group differences in blood pressure and glycated hemoglobin levels during the trial were no longer evident by the first post-trial visit. The reductions in the risk of death from any cause and of death from cardiovascular causes that had been observed in the group receiving active blood-pressure-lowering treatment during the trial were attenuated but significant at the end of the post-trial follow-up; the hazard ratios were 0.91 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.84 to 0.99; P=0.03) and 0.88 (95% CI, 0.77 to 0.99; P=0.04), respectively. No differences were observed during follow-up in the risk of death from any cause or major macrovascular events between the intensive-glucose-control group and the standard-glucose-control group; the hazard ratios were 1.00 (95% CI, 0.92 to 1.08) and 1.00 (95% CI, 0.92 to 1.08), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The benefits with respect to mortality that had been observed among patients originally assigned to blood-pressure-lowering therapy were attenuated but still evident at the end of follow-up. There was no evidence that intensive glucose control during the trial led to long-term benefits with respect to mortality or macrovascular events. (Funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and others; ADVANCE-ON ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00949286.).

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  • There is a lag time of at least 2 years in type 2 diabetes to over 10 years in type 1 diabetes for the effects of intensive glucose control to manifest as improved eGFR outcomes.

    “Moreover, there is a lag time of at least 2 years in type 2 diabetes to over 10 years in type 1 diabetes for the effects of intensive glucose control to manifest as improved eGFR outcomes (57,61,62).”

    From 11. Chronic Kidney Disease and Risk Management: Standards of Care in Diabetes—2025 (2025) · cites this paper as [57]

    The discussion accompanying Figure 3 reports a persistent benefit of intensive glucose control for end-stage renal disease in the type 2 diabetes cohort. It does not report improved eGFR or establish a two-year lag. The discussion accompanying Figure 4 mentions more than 10 years of follow-up in other trials, but not a lag of over 10 years before eGFR improves in type 1 diabetes. (LLM, conf=0.81)

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  • Lowering blood glucose itself helps prevent CKD and its progression.

    “Insulin alone was used to lower blood glucose in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT)/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) study of type 1 diabetes, while a variety of agents were used in clinical trials of type 2 diabetes, supporting the conclusion that lowering blood glucose itself helps prevent CKD and its progression.”

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    The discussion accompanying Figure 3 reports that intensive glucose control reduced new or worsening nephropathy, including albuminuria progression, and that a benefit for end-stage renal disease persisted during follow-up. It does not establish that glucose lowering alone caused the benefit: the authors say blood-pressure differences may have contributed and caution that end-stage renal disease events were few. The paper also does not establish the citing sentence’s comparison of insulin-only treatment in DCCT/EDIC with agents used across type 2 diabetes trials. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Intensive lowering of blood glucose with the goal of achieving near-normoglycemia has been shown in large randomized studies to delay the onset and progression of albuminuria and reduce eGFR in people with type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes.

    “Intensive lowering of blood glucose with the goal of achieving near-normoglycemia has been shown in large, randomized studies to delay the onset and progression of albuminuria and reduce eGFR in people with type 1 diabetes (52,53) and type 2 diabetes (1,(54)(55)(56)(57)(58)(59).”

    From 11. Chronic Kidney Disease and Risk Management: Standards of Care in Diabetes—2025 (2025) · cites this paper as [57]

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  • There is a lag time of at least 2 years in type 2 diabetes to over 10 years in type 1 diabetes for the effects of intensive glucose control to manifest as improved eGFR outcomes.

    “Moreover, there is a lag time of at least 2 years in type 2 diabetes to over 10 years in type 1 diabetes for the effects of intensive glucose control to manifest as improved eGFR outcomes (59)(60)(61).”

    From 11. Chronic Kidney Disease and Risk Management: Standards of Care in Diabetes—2026 (2026) · cites this paper as [59]

    The Figure 3 discussion reports a benefit of intensive glucose control for end-stage renal disease in type 2 diabetes. The Figure 4 discussion suggests that five years of post-trial follow-up may have been too short for some benefits to emerge. Neither passage establishes improved eGFR outcomes or the claimed lag times of at least two years in type 2 diabetes and over ten years in type 1 diabetes; the Study Outcomes section says the biochemical measurements needed to assess nephropathy were unavailable for all follow-up participants. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  • In the ADVANCE trial, intensive glucose control aimed at reducing A1C ≤6.5% significantly reduced the incidence of major microvascular events, mainly through a 21% relative reduction in nephropathy, but had no beneficial effect on major CV events or all-cause mortality during the trial or subsequent median 5.4-year follow-up.

    “There was significant reduction in the incidence of major microvascular events in the intensive control group, mainly through a 21% relative reduction in nephropathy (23); however, no beneficial effect of intensive glucose lowering was found on major CV events or allcause mortality either during the trial or the subsequent median observational follow up of 5.4 years (24).”

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Zoungas, S., Chalmers, J., Neal, B., Billot, L., Li, Q., Hirakawa, Y., Arima, H., Monaghan, H., Joshi, R., Colagiuri, S., Cooper, M. E., Glasziou, P., Grobbee, D., Hamet, P., Harrap, S., Heller, S., Lisheng, L., Mancia, G., Marre, M., Matthews, D. R., Mogensen, C. E., Perkovic, V., Poulter, N., Rodgers, A., Williams, B., MacMahon, S., Patel, A., & Woodward, M.
Affiliations
  • The University of Sydney (AU)
  • The George Institute for Global Health (GB)
  • The George Institute for Global Health (AU)
  • Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute (AU)
  • Bond University (AU)
  • University Medical Center Utrecht (NL)
  • Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CA)
  • The Royal Melbourne Hospital (AU)
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
  • IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano (IT)
  • Hôpital Bichat-Claude-Bernard (FR)
  • Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (GB)
  • Aarhus University Hospital (DK)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (GB)
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
Venue
New England Journal of Medicine
Published
2014-10-09
Volume
371
Issue
15
Pages
1392-1406
ISSN
  • 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
  • 1533-4406
OpenAlex
W2124909544
Cited by
626
References
15
Citations by year
2026: 20 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 46 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 59 · 2019: 74 · 2018: 64 · 2017: 69 · 2016: 69 · 2015: 73 · 2014: 8
FWCI
58.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
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  • LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) (acceptedVersion)
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  • Homo Politicus (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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  • BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca) (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Bond University Research Portal (Bond University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
  • Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Eli Lilly and Company
  • Pfizer
  • AstraZeneca
  • Sanofi
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (NF-SI-0611-10248)
  • British Heart Foundation (28562, SP/10/6/28562)
  • Daiichi-Sankyo
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Astellas Pharma
  • Servier
  • Merck Sharp and Dohme
  • Medical Research Council (MC_PC_13090)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes Treatment and Management
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
Keywords
type 2 diabetes, perindopril, indapamide, blood pressure reduction, tight glycemic control, HbA1c, mortality, cardiovascular mortality, ADVANCE trial, post-trial follow-up, renin-angiotensin system inhibitors, ACE inhibitors, thiazide diuretics, long-term follow-up, trial attrition
MeSH terms
Antihypertensive Agents, Blood Glucose, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Drug Combinations, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Gliclazide, Glycated Hemoglobin, Humans, Hypertension, Hypoglycemic Agents, Indapamide, Male, Middle Aged, Risk Factors, Perindopril

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