Sunday, October 28, 2012

Blood Sugar 140: Diabetic Neuropathy, Is it All About Hyperglycemia?

Continuing on in this series dealing with the neuropathy study from which the following statement has been repeated regarding blood glucose levels:  
Nerve Damage Occurs when Blood Sugars Rise Over 140 mg/dl After Meals  (as stated by Ruhl , Jaminet (Kindle Locations 712-716), and Kresser.)
At the risk of repetition, this does seem to have originated with Jenny Ruhl's interpretations of this study wherein 50% of 72 individuals with neuropathy were diagnosed as IGT having a BG level over 140 mg/dL at the 2-hour mark of an OGTT.   The IGT group was also more likely to have painful sensory symptoms than the roughly one-third who were normoglycemic (the remaining group were frank diabetic).
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