Posts Tagged ‘glucose tolerance’

March 24th, 2011

Study Finds Pioglitazone Prevents Progression To Diabetes

Pioglitazone significantly reduces the development of type 2 diabetes in people with impaired glucose tolerance, according to the results of the ACT NOW study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Ralph DeFronzo and colleagues randomized 602 patients with impaired glucose tolerance to pioglitazone or placebo. During a median followup of  2.4 years, diabetes developed […]