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Diabetes management. The term diabetes includes several different metabolic disorders that all, if left untreated, result in abnormally high concentrations of a sugar called glucose in the blood. Diabetes mellitus type 1 results when the pancreas no longer produces significant amounts of the hormone insulin, usually owing to the autoimmune ...
Semaglutide is an antidiabetic medication used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and an anti-obesity medication used for long-term weight management. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] It is a peptide similar to the hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), modified with a side chain .
GLP-1 agonists were developed initially for type 2 diabetes. [5] The 2022 American Diabetes Association (ADA) standards of medical care in diabetes include GLP-1 agonist or SGLT2 inhibitor as a first line pharmacological therapy for type 2 diabetes in patients who have or are at high risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease or heart failure.
GLP-1 agonists, a class of medication typically used to treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity, have been available since 2005, but only in the past few years have they transformed weight loss ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved seven medications for weight loss and management. These medications typically help you control your appetite or help your body respond to ...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is the most common type of diabetes. Treatments include agents that (1) increase the amount of insulin secreted by the pancreas, (2) increase the sensitivity of target organs to insulin, (3) decrease the rate at which glucose is absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract, and (4) increase the loss of glucose through ...
Clinical trials for exenatide demonstrated the potential of this diabetes drug for weight loss. Exenatide paved the way for future GLP-1s, providing new treatment options for people with obesity.
Complications of diabetes are secondary diseases that are a result of elevated blood glucose levels that occur in diabetic patients. These complications can be divided into two types: acute and chronic. Acute complications are complications that develop rapidly and can be exemplified as diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), hyperglycemic hyperosmolar ...