New Drug Slows Type 1 Diabetes
An experimental drug slows the course of type 1, or juvenile, diabetes and one day might prevent it altogether, researchers say.
A study in today's New England Journal of Medicine involved 80 patients recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, a form of the disease in which patients can't make insulin. It usually is diagnosed in children or young adults, and it affects 1million to 2 million Americans.
Researchers in Belgium, Germany, England and France gave half the group infusions for six days of a drug that stops the immune system's destruction of beta cells in the pancreas, which make insulin.
They found that the drug preserved beta cells, so patients needed less supplemental insulin even 18 months after the treatment. Those who got a placebo continued to need increasing amounts of insulin and have fewer functioning beta cells.
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