{"id":89576,"date":"2019-04-16T12:43:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T19:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/study-finds-diabetes-drug-may-prevent-slow-kidney-disease"},"modified":"2019-04-16T12:43:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T19:43:35","slug":"study-finds-diabetes-drug-may-prevent-slow-kidney-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/study-finds-diabetes-drug-may-prevent-slow-kidney-disease","title":{"rendered":"Study finds diabetes drug may prevent, slow kidney disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-finds-diabetes-drug-may-prevent-slow-kidney-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A drug that\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors say it\u2019s hard to overstate the importance of this study, and what it means for curbing this problem, which is growing because of the obesity epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>The study tested Janssen Pharmaceuticals\u2019 drug Invokana. Results were discussed Sunday at a medical meeting in Australia and published by the New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/69f27b6abf844303bda1b8d4194af6d1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drug that\u2019s 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. Doctors say it\u2019s hard to overstate the importance of this study, [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89576","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=89576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}