Posted on January 3, 2008 in Latest News
Malaria drug, hydroxycholorquine, prevents Diabetes in the case of rheumatoid arthritis patients and also counter-acts Diabetes Type 2 in people who are not suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Researchers have proven this. Although, what type of Diabetes can be checked has not been clarified, the general view held is that Diabetes Type 2 can be avoided. The drug is inexpensive and safe to be used.
Rheumatoid arthritis patients take malaria drug for pain and inflammation relief. The drug benefits them in another way; the onset of Diabetes is prevented among many of them. Research proves it. How?
How Malaria Drug is Beneficial to Diabetics?
- Malaria Drugs have proved to be useful in reducing the risk of Diabetes. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis as mentioned in Cell Metabolism, November 2006, have highlighted that small doses of malaria drug chloroquine improves blood sugar tolerance
- Researcher Mary Chestor Wasko and colleagues studied some 4,900 rheumatoid arthritis adult patients and observed their intake of hydroxycholorquine. The drug eases pain and inflammation. They concluded that those who did take the drug were 38% less likely to report the onset of Diabetes as compared to those never took. This has been quoted in a news item in the second week of July edition of The Journal of the American Medical Association
- The hydroxycholorquine helps the body make and respond to insulin properly. Insulin is a hormone that converts sugars, starch and other food items in the body into energy
- Hydroxycholorquine is safe and inexpensive
Malaria drugs are useful in many ways. They not only help in the treatment of certain ailments, apart from malaria, but also prevent Diabetes.
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