Diabetes drug Actos reduces risk of developing the disease

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 20:30 in Health & Medicine

The diabetes drug Actos reduces the possibility of developing Type 2 diabetes for high-risk patients, study finds.Taking the diabetes drug Actos every day reduced the chance of developing Type 2 diabetes by two-thirds in people whose obesity, ethnicity, family history and other factors put them at high risk of developing the disease, researchers said Wednesday.

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