Maintain ideal blood sugar range to lower risk of repeat strokes, heart attacks

The study involved 18,567 people with diabetes with an average age of 70.

A new research has found that for people with diabetes who have a stroke, there may be ideal blood sugar levels to lower the risk of different types of vascular diseases like a stroke or heart attack later on. The findings of the research were published in the medical journal 'Neurology'.

"We know that having diabetes may be associated with an increased risk of having a first stroke," said study author Moon-Ku Han, MD, PhD, of Seoul National University College of Medicine in Korea.

"But our results indicate that there is an optimal blood sugar level that may start to minimise the risk of having another stroke, a heart attack or other vascular problems, and it's right in the 6.8 per cent to 7.0 per cent range," Han added.