Actos May Help Prevent Diabetes - But You Probably Don't Want It (Yet)
Sunday, March 27, 2011 - 17:50
in Health & Medicine
The big news in the diabetes world this week is a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine (link here) about how Actos (scientific name: pioglitazone) can help prevent the development of diabetes in folks with prediabetes. The American Diabetes Association has a handy page for helping determine if you have "prediabetes" (link here). If you're looking at HbA1c, it means that you are between 5.7% and 6.4%. read more