{"id":87198,"date":"2019-01-30T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T02:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/experimental-drug-could-be-new-option-for-type-2-diabetes"},"modified":"2019-01-30T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T02:00:57","slug":"experimental-drug-could-be-new-option-for-type-2-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/experimental-drug-could-be-new-option-for-type-2-diabetes","title":{"rendered":"Experimental drug could be new option for type 2 diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-drug-could-be-new-option-for-type-2-diabetes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An experimental drug may help people with type 2 diabetes curb their blood sugar without causing it to drop to dangerously low levels.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that the compound\u2014dubbed TTP399 for now\u2014improved patients\u2019 blood <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/sugar\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sugar<\/a> control when it was added to the standard medication metformin for six months.<\/p>\n<p>And it did so without causing hypoglycemia\u2014blood sugar drops that, if severe, can lead to convulsions or loss of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-01-experimental-drug-option-diabetes.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019&#45;01-experimental-drug...betes.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experimental drug may help people with type 2 diabetes curb their blood sugar without causing it to drop to dangerously low levels. Researchers found that the compound\u2014dubbed TTP399 for now\u2014improved patients\u2019 blood sugar control when it was added to the standard medication metformin for six months. And it did so without causing hypoglycemia\u2014blood sugar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87198","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\/87198","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}