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Can common drug metformin help diabetics?

AIMAN INAM

 

LONDON: A recent study conducted here has discovered that Insulin when taken in combination with metformin (which is an ordinary medicine that assists manage blood sugar), has the prospective to lessen fatality and heart strokes in people suffering from Type 2 diabetes.

Lead author of the study Professor Craig Currie from Cardiff University in Britain has stated: “In this research we have found that there was a considerable reduction in deaths and heart problems when this cheap and common drug was used in conjunction with insulin.”

Additionally, improved amount of insulin was formerly identified to boost up the hazard of cancer, heart diseases and resulting deaths.

Conversely, the study found that there was no divergence in the menace of tumor amid people healed with Insulin as a distinct treatment or in conjunction with metformin.

The results were recorded and published in the journal PLOS ONE, following the observation of 12,020 people.

Currie further maintained that additional researches are required to conclude the danger and advantages of insulin in Type 2 diabetes including the benefits linked with metformin beside insulin.

 

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.