DOI: 10.2337/diaspect.20.3.159 © 2007 by the American Diabetes Association Anti-Diabetes and Anti-Obesity Medications: Effects on Weight in People With Diabetes
In Brief Choosing medications for people with diabetes involves consideration of a number of factors, including effects on weight. Improvements in glucose control are often linked to weight gain, but this does not have to be the inevitable result of diabetes treatment. Adding a drug that either promotes weight-loss or is weight neutral to one that promotes weight gain and providing medical nutrition therapy can be considered.
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