Two key treatments do not halt diabetes in people with early signs of the disease, a large study has found.One. Now we can stop paying for fatsos' drugs since they do not work.
Researchers said the results showed the only way to ensure future health in people at high risk of diabetes was exercise and a healthy diet...
Everyone taking part in the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, had been diagnosed with what doctors call "impaired glucose tolerance". (sic)
It effectively means that people have high blood sugar and their bodies are starting to not respond to insulin as well as they should.
Sometimes called pre-diabetes, it is thought that the condition is a stage in the development of full-blown type 2 diabetes, and can be associated with obesity.
Two. Completely free and accessible-to-all "treatment" methods are the ones that work.
And the study was extensive.
In the trial, researchers in the US and UK looked at whether using a drug that lowers blood pressure or a drug which lowers blood sugar could be used to stop diabetes developing in these high-risk patients.The conclusion remains and will always be:
But the results, from patients in 40 countries, found no great difference in how many people went on to get diabetes when prescribed either drug compared with a dummy pill.
Neither did the drugs prevent future heart attacks and strokes, which are dangerous complications of the condition.
In the blood-sugar lowering drug part of the study around a third of people went on to develop diabetes within five years whether they were taking the real medicine or dummy medicine.
He said: "The most successful treatment for someone at high risk of diabetes is diet and exercise."Get fit.
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