Medication Improves Fat
Distribution in Diabetes
Less
abdominal fat even with weight gain.
Drug
treatment can reduce abdominal fat in people with type 2 diabetes,
according to a new study.
Researchers
at the University of Texas have been looking into the effect that the
drug pioglitazone has on people with type 2 diabetes. They studied 13
people with the condition, who took the drug for 16 weeks.
After
this time body weight had, on the whole, gone up. But measurements
revealed an interesting redistribution of body fat, despite the
overall weight increase. There was less of the abdominal fat that is
known to be a health hazard. Instead, subcutaneous fat went up. At the
same time, insulin sensitivity and control of blood sugar was
increased - both of which really benefits the medical condition of
those who have diabetes. Source Journal of
Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism June 2002
