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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A NEW drug is being hailed as an ?exciting? breakthrough in the fight against diabetes.
This could prevent obese patients and others at risk of Type 2 *diabetes from ever getting the disease.
Scientists say the innovative drug, known as MK2, could be added to metformin, the current first-line treatment for the illness, to create a super-pill.
This would effectively have double the potency of either drug to control insulin and glucose levels if taken on their own.
The experts believe the combined drug would be especially useful in treating seriously over-weight patients as it prevents insulin cells ?burning out? as they try to cope with obesity.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/health/444445/Super-pill-can-stop-diabetes-in-its-tracks
Sounds like sensationalist nonsense 🙄 And what's this about "MK2 lowers cholesterol and does not *damage the heart in the same way as existing treatments"? Are they saying statins damage the heart?
This could prevent obese patients and others at risk of Type 2 *diabetes from ever getting the disease.
Scientists say the innovative drug, known as MK2, could be added to metformin, the current first-line treatment for the illness, to create a super-pill.
This would effectively have double the potency of either drug to control insulin and glucose levels if taken on their own.
The experts believe the combined drug would be especially useful in treating seriously over-weight patients as it prevents insulin cells ?burning out? as they try to cope with obesity.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/health/444445/Super-pill-can-stop-diabetes-in-its-tracks
Sounds like sensationalist nonsense 🙄 And what's this about "MK2 lowers cholesterol and does not *damage the heart in the same way as existing treatments"? Are they saying statins damage the heart?