Diabetes is when there’s too much sugar in the blood. It’s a problem many people face.
They take medicine to help control this sugar. There are old medicines and new ones, but which is better?
The Two Competing Medicines
There’s an older medicine for diabetes called DPP4 inhibitors (or DPP4i for short). But there’s also a newer one called sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (or SGLT2i).
Both help control sugar in the blood, but they do it in different ways.
Scientists in Hong Kong decided to check which medicine is better. They looked at over 30,000 people with diabetes. Some took the old medicine and some the new.
One big thing the scientists wanted to know was if the new medicine can help the kidneys. Kidneys are important. They clean the blood. But diabetes can hurt the kidneys.
They checked if the new medicine could help prevent severe kidney disease and other kidney problems.
There was also a question about the lungs. There’s a thought that the new medicine might help the lungs by reducing swelling. Swelling in the lungs can cause breathing problems and infections.
The scientists found out some great things! People taking the new medicine had less risk of serious kidney problems. And they also had less risk of lung issues.
Dr. Cheung Ching-lung, a scientist from the study, said they need to do more studies. The findings are good but not final. It means the new medicine might be better, but more checks are needed.
Staying Healthy with Diabetes
While medicines help, the best way to fight diabetes is to eat right, be active, and listen to the doctor.
For those interested in more on diabetes, there are other studies to check out. Some studies say certain foods help with diabetes, while others warn about some diabetes medicines.
If you want to know more, you can find this study in a journal called JAMA Network Open.
If you care about diabetes, please read studies that not all whole grain foods could benefit people with type 2 diabetes, and green tea could help reduce death risk in type 2 diabetes.
For more information about nutrition, please see recent studies about unhealthy plant-based diets linked to metabolic syndrome, and results showing Mediterranean diet could help reduce the diabetes risk by 30%.
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