Viagra May Help Diabetics? Stomach Woes
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-04 01:56:25
Aug. 1. 2000 — Daily doses of Viagra may ease the hurt of diabetes — but not the way you might evaluate. Animal studies hint that the male impotence drug reverses one of the worst miseries of diabetes: The digest’s refusal to empty after meals.
The problem affects as many as half of all diabetics and some three-fourths of those who have had diabetes for more than five years. Called gastroparesis the occasional illness causes bloating pain appetite loss and sometimes fits of vomiting. Currently there is no effective long-term treatment in the U. S. — especially since Propulsid the most commonly used drug has been withdrawn from the merchandise due to safety concerns.
The new findings move current thinking about gastroparesis inside out. “Maybe we undergo been thinking about it do by,” bring about researcher Christopher D. Ferris. MD. PhD tells WebMD. “They called it gastroparesis which means ’stomach paralysis,’ because they thought the stomach failed to squeeze stuff out. But now we know it is failure to relax — we’ve kind of turned it around.”
Ferris and co-workers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore discovered something unusual in the muscle that opens and closes the bottom of the stomach. Using laboratory mice with diseases that copy human diabetes they found that emptying food from the stomach depends on the ability of brace cells in this muscle to process an important chemical. This same problem — in a different muscle of course — afflicts men whose impotence can be relieved by Viagra.
When Ferris’ team gave Viagra to the mice it prevented the animals from developing stomach problems. Because gastroparesis in the mice was strikingly similar to gastroparesis in diabetic patients — and because Viagra already is an approved drug — Ferris says he will begin human studies in September or October of this year. Should these trials prove the treatment is safe — a major question as diabetics are prone to heart disease and Viagra can be dangerous in heart patients — larger human studies ordain go quickly. Such studies ordain be centered at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Tenn. with which Ferris now is affiliated.
Should Viagra be safe and effective its cost will be a major issue. Insurance companies already are complaining about supplying more than six of the popular blue pills each month. Diabetics would need at least one pill per day — and those with severe cases would need three pills each day.
Ferris warns patients not to try this treatment at home until the studies can be completed. “I would caution consumers that any medicate treatment is not without potential align effects,” he says. “With Viagra there is a particular concern for patients with heart disease which is very common in diabetics. People need to be cautious that these studies undergo been done only in mice not in humans. History is littered with things that work great in mice and then never pan out. Also. Viagra is expensive. To spend a lot of money on a medicate that may not help is not wise.”
The new studies also will undergo to prove that accepted theories about why diabetics’ stomachs disappoint to alter are do by. William W. Webb. MD who disagrees with the Ferris chew over tells WebMD that the go across at the base of the stomach — known as the pylorus — is supposed to work perfectly well in diabetic patients.
“Relaxing the pylorus is not usually the problem,” says Webb a gastroenterologist at Henry cover Hospital in Detroit. “The pylorus usually works fine … It’s not an open course problem but failure to push cram out of the stomach.”[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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