Type 2 Diabetes Study: Drugs Don't Cut Heart Disease Risk - TIME

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Type 2 Diabetes Study: Drugs Don't Cut Heart Disease Risk - TIME

New data suggest that aggressive drug treatments to reduce known heart-disease risk factors don't actually help diabetes patients. Why? And what now?

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Tags: Heart, Heart Disease, Coronary Artery Disease, Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Disease and Condition, Drug

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Why Drugs Don't Help Diabetes Patients' Hearts - TuDiabetes

tudiabetes.org — “Doctors at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta on Sunday got some surprising news on their first day of sessions. Researchers presented three studies revealing that some of the most widely prescribed medications to reduce the risk of heart disease in Type 2 diabetes patients appeared not to provide much benefit at all. People with diabetes are twice as likely as nondiabetics to suffer a heart attack " most diabetes patients die of heart disease " and for years, ph” View full resource at tudiabetes.org