Anti-Diabetes and Anti-Obesity Medications: Effects on Weight in People With Diabetes
Abstract
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.
Footnotes
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Priscilla Hollander, MD, is medical director at the Baylor University Medical Center Ruth Collins Diabetes Center in Dallas, Texas.
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Note of disclosure: Dr. Hollander has recieved honoraria for speaking engagements from Merck, Pfizer, and Sanofi-Aventis and has served on advisory boards for these companies and for Roche Pharmaceuticals, all of which manufacture pharmaceutical products for the treatment of diabetes.
- American Diabetes Association
