{"id":80597,"date":"2018-07-13T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T23:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/human-trials-show-a-30-year-old-heart-disease-drug-could-help-treat-type-1-diabetes"},"modified":"2018-07-13T16:07:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T23:07:02","slug":"human-trials-show-a-30-year-old-heart-disease-drug-could-help-treat-type-1-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/human-trials-show-a-30-year-old-heart-disease-drug-could-help-treat-type-1-diabetes","title":{"rendered":"Human Trials Show a 30-Year-Old Heart Disease Drug Could Help Treat Type 1 Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-trials-show-a-30-year-old-heart-disease-drug-could-help-treat-type-1-diabetes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finger pricks and daily insulin injections are currently the leading regimen for those with type 1 diabetes, a condition in which the body\u2019s insulin producing cells beta cells are destroyed. And it\u2019s not foolproof.<\/p>\n<p>Patients can often face risks over overcorrecting their blood sugar levels, which can potentially lead to hypoglycemia \u2013 low blood sugar \u2013 and coma.<\/p>\n<p>Insulin is responsible for regulating the amount of sugar in the blood, and dysfunctions with it can cause diabetes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-30-year-old-heart-disease-drug-could-help-treat-type-1-diabetes-verapamil\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-30-year-old-heart-disease-...-verapamil<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finger pricks and daily insulin injections are currently the leading regimen for those with type 1 diabetes, a condition in which the body\u2019s insulin producing cells beta cells are destroyed. And it\u2019s not foolproof. Patients can often face risks over overcorrecting their blood sugar levels, which can potentially lead to hypoglycemia \u2013 low blood sugar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80597","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}