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DCCT-EDIC Trial


The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) was a multicenter, randomized clinical trial designed to compare intensive with conventional diabetes therapy with regard to their effects on the development and progression of the early vascular and neurologic complications of type 1 insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. The DCCT study involved 1,441 participants, ages 13 to 39, with type 1 diabetes and either no or minimal background retinopathy.

The Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) study was initiated as follow-up to examine the long-term effects of the original DCCT interventions on diabetic complications such as cardiovascular events and advanced retinal and renal disease. Over 90 percent of participants from the DDCT study were followed by the EDIC study.
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