New glucose lowering drug can improve diabetes control

Elderly people with type 2 diabetes have been given new hope by a University of Birmingham study which demonstrates a glucose-lowering drug can be used by them to improve control of the illness without sending their blood sugar levels crashing to dangerous levels.Older people with type 2 diabetes who control their sugar levels with certain commonly used drugs are at significantly increased risk of becoming hypoglycaemic (developing too low a blood sugar) compared with younger people with the condition.This can be because older people can fail to recognise the warning symptoms of hypoglycaemia and also may have reduced kidney function,