Diabetes type 2 patients who actively control their blood sugar level themselves have a 50 percent less chance to die of their disease. They also have a 30 percent less chance of amputations and complications like blindness and heart- and kidney failure.

This is the outcome of a big epidemiologic research by the German Diabetes Center in Dusseldorf.

Lots of disappointments had to be taken in first. Promising treatments for diabetes 1 did not live up to their promise. Researchers kept hoping and at last all the investments seem to be paying off. An experiment in Sweden with a new vaccination is giving promising results.