A common diabetes drug has been found to lower the risk of kidney failure in a new study
. The finding has raised some eyebrows since diabetes is a major cause of kidney failure worldwide.
The risk of kidney failure and cardiovascular-related problems was lowered in patients with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease who took a daily dose of the drug canagliflozin as part of the study published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Sunday.The study was funded by the pharmaceutical company Janssen, manufacturer of the drug canagliflozin, which has the brand name Invokana.
Type 2 diabetes hitting a younger generation 02:33The study included 4,401 patients, aged 30 and older, with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease. Those patients were randomly assigned at 690 sites in 34 countries to take either canagliflozin or a placebo, from March 2014 through May 2017. Read MoreThey were followed up with at 3, 13 and 26 weeks, during which the effects of the drug were monitored.
The effect of the drug"was quite rapid" in the study, Dr. Derek Leroith, professor of medicine and interim chief of the Hilda & J. Lester Gabrilove Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bones Diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, said in an email. Leroith also is a diabetes guidelines chair for the Endocrine Society.
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