New research presented at this year’s annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Berlin, Germany, and published in The Lancet, shows that the appetite-suppressant drug lorcaserin decreases risk of developing diabetes and increases the rates of remission of high blood sugar. Lorcaserin also reduces the risk of kidney complications due to diabetes in obese and overweight patients. The study is by Dr Erin Bohula and Dr Benjamin Scirica and colleagues from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital investigators from the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) Study Group, Boston, MA, and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
