Treatment Of Diabetes Is Different For Men And Women

Treatment Of Diabetes Is Different For Men And Women.
Widely hand-me-down diabetes drugs have special effects on men's and women's hearts, a supplementary study suggests. Researchers examined how three commonly prescribed treatments for type 2 diabetes simulated 78 patients who were divided into three groups. One group took metformin alone, the supporter group took metformin plus rosiglitazone (sold under the trade-mark name Avandia) and the third group took metformin plus Lovaza, a type of fish oil. Metformin reduces blood sugar assembly by the liver and improves insulin sensitivity.

Rosiglitazone also improves insulin kind-heartedness and moves free fatty acids out of the blood. Lovaza lowers blood levels of another sort of fat called triglycerides. The researchers found that the drugs had very out of the ordinary and sometimes opposite effects on the hearts of men and women, even as the drugs controlled blood sugar equally well in both genders. The lucubrate appears in the December issue of the American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology.