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Now Lilly no longer needs insulin shots to control her blood glucose.

Instead, she takes five sulfonylurea pills twice a day.

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Weight Loss is the Best Way to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes Weight loss is the

key factor in reducing diabetes risk for high-risk, overweight individuals,

a new study shows. Participants in the intensive lifestyle intervention

portion of the Diabetes Prevention Program, which involved cutting fat and

calories with the goal of reducing by weight by 7 percent, reduced their

likelihood of developing diabetes by 58 percent over a three-year period.

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Blood Pressure Drug Could Cause 8,000 Diabetes Cases a Year in Britain

Beta-blocker drugs used to fight high blood pressure can bring on diabetes,

researchers have warned. They say the risk is 50 percent higher than with

newer drugs. At least two million Britons have been on beta-blockers at any

one time, although they are no longer recommended for treating high blood

pressure and are being phased out. Experts believe 8,000 people a year in

the UK have been developing diabetes as a result of taking the drugs. The

condition greatly increases their already high risk of heart attacks,

strokes and kidney disease. The latest guidance to doctors already says that

newer ACE inhibitors and calcium channel blockers should be the first choice

treatment for the millions of Britons being treated for high blood pressure.

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Taking Preventive Medications Curbs Diabetes Risk Individuals at risk for

developing type 2 diabetes who are prescribed the drug metformin should

stick with it, doctors say. In a large study, individuals who adhered to a

metformin-based diabetes preventive strategy had a reduced risk of

developing diabetes, they report. The Diabetes Prevention Program

investigated the value of intensive lifestyle intervention (diet and

exercise) or metformin in delaying or preventing type 2 diabetes in

high-risk individuals with impaired glucose tolerance, a precursor to

full-blown diabetes.

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High Blood Pressure, Diabetes Cut Heart's Reserve The reserve capacity of

the heart is impaired in people with both diabetes and high blood pressure.

This is true even when they don't have actual coronary artery disease which

could ultimately lead to heart failure, according to a new report. " Strict

control of both hypertension and diabetes is essential to avoid the

development of clinical syndromes, " Dr. Quintana from the Karolinska

Institute, Stockholm, Sweden told Reuters Health.

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New Hypertension Pills Cut Diabetes Risk by Third Patients given a mix of

modern blood pressure drugs are one-third less likely to develop diabetes

than those on older pills, researchers said. A new analysis of Europe's

biggest-ever study of hypertensive patients showed 8 percent given newer

medicines developed diabetes after five years, against 11.4 percent of those

on older drugs. The 19,000-person trial was halted in November 2004 because

the newer drugs proved so much better in reducing strokes and heart attacks.

It compared a regimen of a beta-blocker and a diuretic with a combination of

Pfizer Inc.'s Norvasc and Coversyl, which was developed by France's Servier

and is marketed in the United States as Aceon by Solvay SA and CV

Therapeutics Inc. Norvasc, known generically as amlodipine, is a calcium

channel blocker, while Coversyl, or perindopril, is an ACE inhibitor.

The clinical trial was paid for by Pfizer.

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Eye Disease Often Progresses in Blacks with Diabetes Over a six-year period,

56 percent of African Americans with type 1 diabetes and retinopathy, a

common diabetes-related complication that can lead to blindness if

unchecked, showed progression of their eye disease, according to a report in

the Archives of Ophthalmology. Poor blood glucose and blood pressure control

were identified as risk factors for progression.

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