Of those patients, 55 % were treated with either insulin or sulfonylureas medications. (sciencedaily.com)
A recent study that can be found in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute is the latest one to find that diabetes drugs with thiazolidinedione is linked to a two to three times greater risk of developing bladder cancer than if the patient were to take a diabetes medication with sulfonylurea. (druginjurylawyersblog.com)
For example, an analysis of nearly 24,000 patients with type 2 diabetes found that three diabetes drugs — glipizide, glyburide, and glimepiride — caused a more than 50 percent greater risk of death compared to another diabetes drug, Metformin.v The three drugs are known as sulfonylureas, which work by spurring your body to produce more insulin. (mercola.ebeaver.org)