June 8, 2021

Whenever Steve or I did a diabetes class for patients or a CE for pharmacists, we always let the participants know that the best way to prevent diabetes was to live like you have it. We were referring to food choices and physical activity, and if you could eat and move like you were treating your diabetes, you would most likely never get it. In the past, we saw research and suggestions that if you gave patients low dose metformin, you could also prevent diabetes; remember the super pill? Now that we have newer medications that have multiple indications, it makes sense that pretreating would aid in prevention.

A new study from Diabetes Care, reviewed by our intern Laura Martínez López from LECOM College of Pharmacy, shows that one of the drugs in the SGLT-2 inhibitor class has been shown to reduce the incidence of diabetes by over 30% in at-risk patients. To find out which of the class has the science behind it, click here.

 

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Dave Joffe

Editor-in-chief