FDA Approves New Drug for Type 2 Diabetes

Neopallium writes to tell us that the FDA has approved the first of a new kind of treatment for type 2 diabetes. From the article: "JANUVIA belongs to a new breakthrough class of prescription medications called dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors that improves blood sugar control in patients with type 2 diabetes. JANUVIA enhances a natural body system called the incretin system, which helps to regulate glucose by affecting the beta cells and alpha cells in the pancreas. Through DPP-4 inhibition, JANUVIA works only when blood sugar is elevated to address diminished insulin due to beta-cell dysfunction and uncontrolled production of glucose by the liver due to alpha-cell and beta-cell dysfunction."

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[Savage-Rabbit]

What?

Short version: Lazy people, including nerds who sit in front of computers all day eating little other than junk food and candy and never get any exercise (and no, making a virtual character run around in a first person shooter doesn't count as exercise) tend to get fat which eventually leads to them developing a condition called diabetes 2. In order to control their diabetes they have to take drugs and possibly inject them selves with insulin. JANUVIA is a new drug that helps some diabetes 2 sufferers control their blood sugar level more efficiently although in most cases it will only prolong the inevitable. This is because most people who contract diabetes 2 are usually apathetic about it and make do with taking their medication but don't do anything to change their lifestyle. They avoid serious exercise and continue to stuff their faces with candy and junk food so the drug only slows down the diabetes and eventually they end up suffering one or more of the following diabetes related ailments: renal failure, blindness, chronic wounds, kidney failure and coronary artery disease. The list is probably longer but those are the only ones I could remember off hand.