Diabetes Drugs Help Prevent Heart Attack and Recurring Stroke

Recent researches reveal that Diabetes drug may help prevent heart disease. The complications and series of abnormal body behavior arising from both types of diabetes very often result in heart diseases. 

If the blood glucose (sugar) levels rise to higher than normal, this is a problem of your body for diabetes, also known as hyperglycemia. Of the two forms of diabetes, Type 2 is the most common form which is less harmful and controllable.

When your body does not use insulin properly, that is your body is insulin resistant, this type of diabetes is called Type 2 diabetes. In the beginning, the pancreas makes extra insulin to make up for it. But in the long run the pancreas fails, resulting in not producing enough insulin to keep blood glucose at normal levels. It is a drug commonly type 2, or type 1 diabetes, which is to prevent, delay heart disease in people with diabetes are used to study patients may be prescribed.

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The leading cause of heart disease is diabetes. More than half of all deaths accounts for heart disease. Metapharamina in therapy is used for reducing the production of glucose by the liver to reduce blood glucose levels in type 2 diabetes. The drug also reduces the risk of type 1 diabetes patients with complications. It is also found that a drug commonly prescribed for Type 2 diabetes patients can also be used to inhibit or delay heart disease in individuals with Type 1 diabetes.

More than half of all fatalities, heart disease is the leading cause of illness in diabetic patients. To lower blood sugar levels by reducing glucose production in the liver, metformin is an inexpensive treatment that is often used for Type 2 diabetes.  The researchers also observed that the drug may also be used to lower the risk of developing this complication for Type 1 diabetic patients. 

Jolanta Weaver, Senior Lecturer at the Newcastle University in Britain said that the research was an exciting step forward as it might have positive clinical implications for patients having increased risk of cardiovascular disease by improving their treatment options.  The stem cells of patients taking metformin were able to promote the repair of the blood vessels and there was an improvement in how vascular stem cells worked.  These were the findings of the clinical trial of a group of researchers of the above stated University. Weaver also added that metformin could routinely be used by patients with Type 1 diabetes to help lower their chances to develop heart disease, by increasing a repair mechanism created by vascular stem cells released from the bone marrow.

When the pancreas does not produce any insulin, a person's blood sugar level becomes too high. This causes the Type 1 diabetes developing in a lifelong autoimmune condition. The research team examined a group of 23 people aged 19-64 who had Type 1 diabetes. These people had been suffering from diabetes for upto 23 years but had no evidence of heart disease.

Metformin was applied to patients for eight weeks at a dose they could tolerate, between one to three tablets a day. The patients were advised to adjust their insulin to keep blood glucose levels safe.  Nine patients within the same age bracket were matched together who took standard insulin treatment and 23 healthy non-diabetic people aged 20-64. The study revealed that all patients in the study had their insulin doses reduced after taking metformin and has not suffered any serious adverse effect.

Metformin may be considered for patients with Type 1 diabetes. These patients may think of considering discussion with their physicians the possibility of adding metformin, even at a very low dose in addition to the insulin that they are taking. But to prevent too low glucose levels, care must to be taken to adjust insulin dose as suggested by the researchers, in the paper published in the journal Cardiovascular Diabetolog.

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What  Is  Diabetes?

You’ve been diagnosed with diabetes because there is too much glucose (a kind of sugar) in your blood. Glucose comes from the starches and sugars that you eat. (However, diabetes is not caused by eating too much sugar.) Your muscle and fat cells use glucose for energy. But glucose can’t just float into your cells. It has to be helped into your cells by insulin, a hormone produced in the beta cells of your pancreas. When your body stopped making enough insulin (insulin deficiency) or your cells stopped responding well to the insulin you did make (insulin resistance), the glucose in your blood couldn’t get into your cells. As a result, your blood glucose levels went up, and you were diagnosed with diabetes.

It used to be easier to decide which type of diabetes a person had. Under 30? Must be type 1. Over 40? Type 2. Thin? Type 1. Overweight? Type 2. But now, two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese, and so are many children and teens. So you can be overweight and develop type 1, and you don’t have to be an adult anymore to be at risk for type 2.

Below are brief descriptions of four types of diabetes. Click on each name to go to more detailed information about it.

Type 1 Diabetes

Most cases of type 1 diabetes are diagnosed in children, teens, and young adults. People with type 1 diabetes make little to no insulin and must use injected insulin. Fewer than 10 percent of all people with diabetes have type 1.

Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes. In type 2 diabetes, the body needs more insulin than normal, but it can’t make enough. People with type 2 diabetes use meal planning, physical activity, pills, insulin, and other injectable medications to control their blood glucose levels.

Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adults (LADA)

LADA progresses more slowly than typical type 1. It is sometimes called “type 1.5 diabetes.”

Gestational Diabetes

Gestational diabetes is diabetes that is diagnosed during pregnancy.

Type 1 Diabetes

How It Started

Years before you were diagnosed, your immune system began to attack the beta cells of your pancreas. Normally, the immune system attacks only foreign invaders, such as bacteria and viruses. When the immune system attacks the body’s own cells, it’s called an autoimmune process.

Some of your beta cells were destroyed by this autoimmune attack, but you had plenty of others left to do the work, so your glucose levels stayed within the normal range. The autoimmune attacked continued, however, and after many more of your beta cells were destroyed, your body started having a little trouble dealing with glucose. Your blood glucose levels went too high after meals, but they weren’t high enough long enough to cause symptoms.

As more beta cells were lost, your blood glucose levels became too high for much of the day. You started to show the classic symptoms of type 1 diabetes.

Symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes

    Thirsty, drinking a lot

    Urinating more than usual

    Losing weight without trying

    Feeling hungry and tired

If you were lucky, you were diagnosed and started on insulin before you got very sick. With insulin therapy, you try to mimic natural insulin levels. You need a low level of insulin all day, plus extra insulin to cover meals. This requires three or four shots of insulin a day or the use of an insulin pump.

The Honeymoon

After you started using insulin, did your requirement for insulin drop a lot? Were you able to control your diabetes on low doses of insulin? This is called a honeymoon. Here’s how it can happen:

You were on the road to type 1 diabetes, but not there yet. Your remaining beta cells were able to squeeze out enough insulin. Then perhaps your body was put under stress. It could have been an illness, such as the flu, or it could have been an emotional stress, such as a death in the family or a natural disaster.

When you’re under stress, your body wants to have extra glucose available, so your liver releases stored glucose. This worked fine before you were developing diabetes-your beta cells simply put out more insulin so that your body could use the extra glucose.

But by this time, most of your beta cells had been destroyed. Your few remaining beta cells could handle a normal amount of glucose, but they couldn’t put out enough insulin to cover this extra glucose, so your blood glucose levels went up.

High levels of glucose smother beta cells. This is called glucose toxicity. Your remaining beta cells were still alive, but they stopped working. Your blood glucose levels jumped even higher, and you were diagnosed with diabetes.

When you started to take insulin, your blood glucose levels came down. Freed of the excess glucose, your remaining beta cells started to produce insulin again. You needed less injected insulin, and your blood glucose levels were easy to control.

This honeymoon can last weeks or months. But the destruction of your beta cells by your immune system will continue. Eventually, all your beta cells will be destroyed. A year after diagnosis, most people with type 1 diabetes are making little to no insulin of their own. The time between diagnosis and when all the beta cells are gone tends to be shorter in children and longer in adults.

Why Me?

Certain genes put a person at higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes. But genes aren’t the whole story; environment plays a role.

It seems that a person has a genetic susceptibility and then encounters a trigger at just the wrong time. Many possible triggers for type 1 diabetes have been proposed, including certain viruses.

What can you do to protect the beta cells you have left?

Researchers are looking for treatments that will stop the immune system’s attack on the beta cells without too many side effects. This would not be a cure for diabetes. But if your immune system’s attack could be slowed or stopped, you could keep making some insulin. This would make your blood glucose levels easier to control.

Early-intervention studies accept participants who have been recently diagnosed. The timing depends on the study: One study may accept only people who have had diabetes for less than one week, while another may take people up to three months after diagnosis.

Source: https://www.diabeteshealth.com/understand-diabetes/

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