Study: Drug lessens diabetics&#39; heart risks
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People suffering from the most common form of diabetes could sharply cut their risk for heart attacks and strokes by taking a cholesterol-lowering drug even if they have normal cholesterol levels, according to a major new study.
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A Takeda Pharmaceuticals diabetes  drug was more effective in dealing with patients' cholesterol  problems than one made by GlaxoSmithKline in a head-to-head  study presented on Wednesday.
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LONDON - Diabetics can prevent heart disease and live longer by taking the anti-cholesterol drug Atorvastatin, even if they do not have particularly high cholesterol levels, a study published on Friday said.
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The reduction in patients for Amylin's Byetta diabetes drug could be small.
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Science & environment: People with diabetes could benefit from taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, scientists say
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One in 12 people should be taking a drug to prevent diabetes, researchers estimate.
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GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia was not to blame for heart deaths in a trial to see if treating diabetes would reduce heart disease, U.S. government-funded researchers said on Wednesday.
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A relatively new blood test for people with diabetes can predict their risk of developing heart disease, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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Older and cheaper pills are just as effective for treating diabetes as some of the more expensive new drugs, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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A drug to lower blood sugar could also help prevent type 2 diabetes.
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A relatively new blood test for people with diabetes can predict their risk of developing heart disease, US researchers reported on Monday.
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A GlaxoSmithKline  blood pressure  medicine proved significantly better in keeping blood sugar  levels from rising in diabetics than another widely used member  of the beta blocker family of hypertension drugs, according to  a large clinical trial.
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Diabetics can prevent heart disease and  live longer by taking the anti-cholesterol drug Atorvastatin,  even if they do not have particularly high cholesterol levels,  a study published on Friday said.
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NEW YORK  - More than one fifth of patients  with type 2 diabetes have decreased blood flow to the heart,  but no symptoms to suggest there is a problem, according to a  report in the medical journal Diabetes Care.
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Type 2 diabetic patients who take their oral medications only part of the time have an increased risk of being hospitalized within a one-year period, the results of a new study indicate.
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NEW YORK  - A drug approved for the treatment of arthritis may have a role in reducing the risk of diabetes and heart trouble developing in young obese individuals, Harvard researchers report.
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Older, cheaper diabetes drugs are as safe and effective as newer ones, concludes an analysis that is good news for diabetics and may further hurt sales of Avandia, a blockbuster pill recently tied to heart problems.