Weight loss drug is promising to cure type-2 diabetes
Posted on: 01/Mar/2017 2:38:23 PM
Compared to Placebo, here is a weight loss drug that cuts down the risk of type-2 diabetes by 80 percent.
This drug will function by surging hormones that suppresses appetite which gets produced in gut. The drug was tested on overweighing people with prediabetes. This is also called the borderline diabetes and can be observed by slightly raised levels of blood sugar. When untreated, this will continue on to type-2 diabetes.
In the UK, about one in ten are affected by prediabetes and this results in diabetes in about 5 to 10 percent of them within 10 years period. Exercise and healthier diet can help cure prediabetes but once it evolves into diabetes, it will become hard to treat. Either condition will result in early death of other conditions like nerve damage, amputation or blindness.
Professor Carel le Roux, obesity expert from Imperial College London and his associates have discovered that a drug used for obesity and diabetes can be of help to prevent development of diabetes if it is coupled with diet and exercise practices. This can in fact cure patients with prediabetes as a whole. The results of the study were published on The Lancet.
