| For all those diabetics out there, do the
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| | most linked to obesity and sometimes
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| names Avandia or Altace ring a bell? A
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| | kidney failure, amputations and death.
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| recent study has shown that both drugs
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| | Type 2 diabetes happens when the body
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| may well help by giving additional
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| | naturally does not produce enough insulin
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| prevention for those that are
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| | or cannot effectively use what the body
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| "pre-diabetics",- which accounts for
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| | does produce.
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| almost 40 million of our population. As
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| | So here are the ups and downs of the
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| many as half of the people who are
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| | study. Both Altace and Avandia were used
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| "pre-diabetics" will develop diabetes
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| | on the volunteers and some of them did
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| within a three year time span.
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| | not use any form of medication. The study
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| This has been the largest study on
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| | showed that less people died on Avandia
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| diabetes prevention ever, the study was
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| | than those who did not take it. But of
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| funded by the Canadian Institutes of
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| | those volunteers on Avandia given,
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| Health Research as well as other
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| | fourteen of them developed heart failure
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| companies that make pharmaceuticals, like
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| | and only two developed heart failure from
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| GlaxoSmithKline PLC which makes Avandia
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| | those not taking medication.
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| and Sanofi-Aventis SA and King
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| | Experts are somewhat skeptical about the
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| Pharmaceuticals which makes Altace.
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| | study results because the volunteers were
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| Avandia, also know as Rosiglitazon, was
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| | also regularly counseled about healthy
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| shown to cut the risk of Type 2 diabetes
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| | diets and lifestyles. Meaning the
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| development by more than half. Avandia
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| | results could well be very different had
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| also controlled blood-sugar to keep it at
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| | the volunteers not been participating in
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| a normal level. Type 2 diabetes is by far
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| | any form of medical assistance. However
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| the most common form of diabetes in the
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| | many doctors say that working out and
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| U.S today, for 18 million sufferers, this
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| | maintaining a healthy diet is still the
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| information could well be a major
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| | best possible way to prevent diabetes in
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| development.
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| | the long term. "We know that lifestyle
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| Another part of the study looked at
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| | changes alone can reduce the risk of
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| Altace, or Ramipril which functions as a
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| | developing diabetes by up to 58 percent,"
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| blood pressure medication but can also
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| | said Dr. Martin Abrahamson, Medical
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| help control blood sugar - yet it does
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| | Director of the Joslin Diabetes Center in
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| not reduce any risk. The aim of the study
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| | Boston. Dr. Abrahamson is not associated
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| was to prevent Type 2 diabetes which is
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| | with the study.
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