From MPT:
“The number of type 2 diabetes drugs that have a proven cardiovascular benefit jumped from one to three this year, highlighting the changing landscape for diabetes treatments.”
Source: Year in Review: Type 2 Diabetes | Medpage Today
The article notes that liraglutide (Victoza), a GLP-1 analogue, was associated with a 13% relative risk reduction in a composite of cardiovascular death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, and nonfatal stroke.
Semaglutide, an experimental GLP-1 analogue, also has evidence for cardiovascular death prevention.
Another diabetes drug, Jardiance or empagliflozin, also has evidence for cardiovascular death prevention. Jardiance is an SGLT2 inhibitor.
Read the full MPT article for more details. I find the cost of these drugs to be an interesting yet little discussed detail.
Let’s assume these drugs actually reduce cardiovascular disease risk in T2 diabetics. What if they increase death and disease rates from cancer and infection? You don’t hear much about that, do you?
We still don’t know much about the long-term adverse effects of most of our diabetes drugs. That’s one reason I tend to favor diet modification as a primary diabetes treatment.
No degludec up in here!
Paleo Diabetic 