{"id":225571,"date":"2025-11-21T05:05:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-drug-could-prevent-diabetes-complications-not-fixed-with-blood-sugar-control-study-hints"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:05:59","slug":"new-drug-could-prevent-diabetes-complications-not-fixed-with-blood-sugar-control-study-hints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-drug-could-prevent-diabetes-complications-not-fixed-with-blood-sugar-control-study-hints","title":{"rendered":"New drug could prevent diabetes complications not fixed with blood sugar control, study hints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-drug-could-prevent-diabetes-complications-not-fixed-with-blood-sugar-control-study-hints.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An experimental drug compound could prevent and treat some complications of diabetes, such as poor wound healing and rampant inflammation. And it works regardless of blood sugar control, a new study in mice and human cells suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The cornerstone of diabetes care is keeping blood sugar in check through diet and exercise, by maintaining a healthy weight, and by injecting the hormone insulin to help shuttle glucose out of the bloodstream. But while maintaining blood sugar levels in a target range reduces the chance that diabetes complications will emerge, it doesn\u2019t eliminate the risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experimental drug compound could prevent and treat some complications of diabetes, such as poor wound healing and rampant inflammation. And it works regardless of blood sugar control, a new study in mice and human cells suggests. The cornerstone of diabetes care is keeping blood sugar in check through diet and exercise, by maintaining a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225571","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}