TeachableMedicalNews article 10132019

Teachable moment in classrooms:

  1. urinary system chapter – glucose reabsorption from filtrate
  2. urinary system chapter – filtration by small blood vessels in glomerulus
  3. endocrine system chapter – insulin and insulin receptor in type 2 diabetes

 

Can peeing out blood sugar possibly save us from kidney failure?

The news item:  Recent news reports wrote about the unexpected health benefit of the type 2 diabetes drug, Invokana.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/study-finds-diabetes-drug-may-prevent-slow-kidney-disease/

The article mentions that deaths from kidney failure, the need for dialysis, the need of kidney transplant were reduced by 30% in treated patients.

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