A drug that’s 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. The study tested Janssen Pharmaceuticals’ drug Invokana. The new study tested Invokana, a daily pill sold now to help control blood sugar, to see if it also could help prevent kidney disease when added to standard treatments. For the study, about 13,000 people with Type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease from around the world were to be given Invokana or dummy pills. The new results, showing that Invokana also may stall or prevent kidney failure, expand the potential benefits of the drug.

Source: National Post April 15, 2019 00:00 UTC