Diabetes Drug Cuts Heart Attacks - Forbes.com

Diabetes Drug Cuts Heart Attacks - Forbes.com: "NEW YORK - A new three-year study of 5,200 diabetics shows that Actos, a popular drug for helping control blood sugar, also prevents heart attacks, strokes and death in diabetics.

'This is the first time that an oral diabetic medicine has been shown to have this benefit in a prospective study,' said John Dormandy, of St. Georges Hospital in London, who headed the trial. Patients in the study received cholesterol and blood-pressure lowering medicine, and other therapies as well, in both the placebo and Actos groups. "