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01-12-2019 | Ramipril | Pharmacologic Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes (HE Lebovitz and G Bahtiyar, Section Editors)

Pharmacologic Randomized Clinical Trials in Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes

Authors: William C. Knowler, Jill P. Crandall

Published in: Current Diabetes Reports | Issue 12/2019

Abstract

Purpose of Review

There have been many randomized clinical trials testing lifestyle and drug interventions to prevent the development of type 2 diabetes in nondiabetic adults at high risk of the disease. We review the major trials using pharmacologic interventions with the primary outcome of preventing diabetes. The trials are grouped according to the main mechanism by which the drugs were thought to have the potential for preventing diabetes.

Recent Findings

Drugs in several different classes have been effective in reducing the incidence of diabetes, but evidence for other long-term benefits, such as avoidance of complications and reducing mortality rates, is very limited.

Summary

Both drugs and lifestyle interventions are effective in preventing and delaying the onset of type 2 diabetes in high-risk adults. The choices of what drugs to use and when during the development of type 2 diabetes to introduce them are not clear.

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Title: Pharmacologic Randomized Clinical Trials in Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes
Authors: William C. Knowler
Jill P. Crandall
Publication date: 01-12-2019
Publisher: Springer US
Keywords: Ramipril
Insulins
A-Glucosidase Inhibitor
Metformin
Nateglinide
Acarbose
Diabetes Prevention
Insulins
Type 2 Diabetes
Published in: Current Diabetes Reports / Issue 12/2019
Print ISSN: 1534-4827
Electronic ISSN: 1539-0829
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-019-1268-5

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