Researchers compared four drugs for type 2 diabetes treatment in a study that began in 2013 and whose results were just recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
They found that two of these four medications outperformed the others in treating patients.
The four types of insulin injections tested in this study were sitagliptin, liraglutide, glimepiride, and glargine U-100 (glargine).
Insulin glargine and liraglutide were the two drugs that were found to be more effective for patients who participated in this experiment. These medications are approved by the U.S. Food and Administration for achieving and maintaining recommended blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes….