Diabetes drug slows kidney disease - study

By Marilynn Marchione
Updated April 15 2019 - 10:38am, first published 10:33am
Kidney disease may be prevented or slowed with the help of a diabetes drug, a study has shown.
Kidney disease may be prevented or slowed with the help of a diabetes drug, a study has shown.

A drug used to help control blood sugar in people with diabetes has now been shown to help prevent or slow kidney disease, which causes millions of deaths each year and requires hundreds of thousands of people to use dialysis to stay alive.

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