{"id":216722,"date":"2025-06-27T06:30:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/diabetes-drug-may-serve-as-alternative-treatment-option-for-hydrocephalus"},"modified":"2025-06-27T06:30:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:30:40","slug":"diabetes-drug-may-serve-as-alternative-treatment-option-for-hydrocephalus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/diabetes-drug-may-serve-as-alternative-treatment-option-for-hydrocephalus","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes drug may serve as alternative treatment option for hydrocephalus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diabetes-drug-may-serve-as-alternative-treatment-option-for-hydrocephalus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A drug commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes may reduce excess fluid in the brains of patients with hydrocephalus, which could help treat the disease less invasively than current treatments, according to a Northwestern Medicine study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jci.org\/articles\/view\/188584\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the <i>Journal of Clinical Investigation.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Magill, MD, Ph.D., assistant professor of Neurological Surgery, was senior author of the study.<\/p>\n<p>Normal pressure <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/hydrocephalus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrocephalus<\/a> occurs when excess cerebrospinal fluid builds up inside the skull and puts pressure on the brain. The cause of the condition is elusive and affects up to 3% of individuals over the age of 65, with symptoms including <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cognitive+decline\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cognitive decline<\/a>, difficulty walking and bladder problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drug commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes may reduce excess fluid in the brains of patients with hydrocephalus, which could help treat the disease less invasively than current treatments, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Stephen Magill, MD, Ph.D., assistant professor of Neurological Surgery, was senior [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}