Diabetes Control and Complications Trial

(DCCT) A ten year study ending June 1993, was sponsored by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases comparing the effects of the usual two-injection a day insulin treatment or intensive therapy using multiple daily injections or an insulin pump to prevent or slow the development of diabetic complications. The DCCT proved that "tight control" of blood glucose levels would slow or prevent complications from diabetes.