{"id":1059816,"date":"2022-04-18T15:07:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T15:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/18\/weight-blood-sugar-blood-pressure-control-helps-type-2-diabetics-live-longer-study-says\/"},"modified":"2022-04-18T15:07:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T15:07:22","slug":"weight-blood-sugar-blood-pressure-control-helps-type-2-diabetics-live-longer-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/18\/weight-blood-sugar-blood-pressure-control-helps-type-2-diabetics-live-longer-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight, blood sugar, blood pressure control helps Type 2 diabetics live longer, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/gp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Study-Weight-blood-sugar-blood-pressure-control-helps-Type-2-diabetics-live-longer.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">April 18 (UPI) \u2014<\/span> People with Type 2 diabetes who keep their blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol levels under control can extend their life expectancy by as long as 10 years, a study published Monday found.<\/p>\n<p>Lowering HbA1c levels, a measure of blood sugar, to 7.7% from 9.9% adds on average nearly 3 1\/2 years on to the life expectancies of people with Type 2 diabetes, the data, published Monday by JAMA Network Open, showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 18 (UPI) \u2014 People with Type 2 diabetes who keep their blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol levels under control can extend their life expectancy by as long as 10 years, a study published Monday found. Lowering HbA1c levels, a measure of blood sugar, to 7.7% from 9.9% adds on average nearly 3 1\/2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1059817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}