{"id":6088,"date":"2015-12-09T15:14:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T15:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/09\/once-a-week-diabetes-meds-are-similar-in-safety-and-effectiveness\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T15:14:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T15:14:59","slug":"once-a-week-diabetes-meds-are-similar-in-safety-and-effectiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/09\/once-a-week-diabetes-meds-are-similar-in-safety-and-effectiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Once-a-week diabetes meds are similar in safety and effectiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(In this Nov 8 story, corrects name of Bydureon in paragraph 10 from Byetta.) By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) \u2013 There\u2019s little difference in the performance of five new once-a-week drugs to treat diabetes when they\u2019re compared to one another, though small differences in side effects emerge, according to a new review of existing evidence. Past studies of the drugs known as glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists \u2013 or GLP-1RAs \u2013 have found that the medications improve blood sugar control and reduce body weight, but the review\u2019s lead author said no research had compared the various versions head-to-head. \u201cThe main message is that today several drugs are available for the control of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes, as never before,\u201d said Dr. Francesco Zaccardi, of the Diabetes Research Center at Leicester General Hospital in the U.K., \u201cTherefore, it is even more important to know differences and similarities among drugs.\u201d In type 2 diabetes, the body can\u2019t properly use or make enough of the hormone insulin to convert blood sugar into energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(In this Nov 8 story, corrects name of Bydureon in paragraph 10 from Byetta.) By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) \u2013 There\u2019s little difference in the performance of five new once-a-week drugs to treat diabetes when they\u2019re compared to one another, though small differences in side effects emerge, according to a new review of existing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-6088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}