Friday, October 17, 2008

Diabetes drug also can cure obesity

WebMD Medical News: "Journal of metabolism," a recently published study showed that metformin hydrochloride that conventional diabetes drug may also help prevent young people suffering from obesity, the drug's mechanism of action is the main regulator of blood glucose. University of Tennessee College of Medicine pediatrician who studies early in the 24 cases of obese children so that a low-calorie food intake, men, girls per day for 1800 and 1500, respectively cards, and half of them to take the metformin hydrochloride . After eight weeks of the inspection results show that the void with the control group, while those who took metformin hydrochloride diet of the children's weight dropped by 6.5 percent, almost twice as much for the former. In addition, experts also found that the children's blood insulin, Lepa solanine, cholesterol and triglyceride levels should also lower than the control group, these parameters are in fact increase the risk of diabetes and other heart Disease risk factors. However, experts warned that such treatment is not entirely without risk, because some of the children taking the drug also showed some side effects, including nausea, dizziness and Xi Bian, and so on.

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