A study has recently showed that diabetes who control their blood sugar levels even if only in the first ten years since they were diagnosed, have lower risks to heart attacks, death or any other complications 10 years or more. The most common type of diabetes linked to obesity is Type 2 diabetes. Researchers want to teach the newly diagnosed patients that submitting themselves to a rigorous treatment could save their life.

Doctors have already warned the diabetes that keeping the blood sugar levels out of control can cause them serious health consequences. Dr. Stephen Davis, head of Vanderbilt University's diabetes and endocrinology division, told the Associated Press that "what you don't want is for people to think that they had a period of good glucose control and then they allow their blood glucose to go high — that would be disadvantageous."

The researchers led by Dr. Rury Holman at the University of Oxford in England looked at 4,209 newly diagnosed diabetes patients. The patients were divided into two groups who had to take care of their blood sugar levels through medicine or through standard diet restrictions.

The ones who chose to take drugs used to take sulfonylurea, which prompts the pancreas to release more natural insulin into the bloodstream. The study showed intensive blood sugar control lowered the risk of further eye disease and kidney damage, but the heart attack risks remained the same.

These results made the researchers to recommend tight blood sugar control through taking the sulfonylurea, which showed 15% lower heart attack risks and strictly diet. The results will be published online on Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine.