Viagra For Type 2 Diabetes: 'Little Blue Pill' Reduces Insulin ...

Insulin resistance occurs when there are high blood sugar levels in the body and the individual cannot produce enough insulin, or insulin does not function properly to clear sugar from the bloodstream. This can lead to the development of type 2 diabetes. Brown and her colleagues recruited 51 overweight participants with prediabetes to determine ...

Viagra Improves Insulin Sensitivity in Individuals at Risk for Diabetes

The medication sildenafil - sold under Viagra and other trade names - improves insulin sensitivity in individuals with prediabetes and also reduces a biological marker that signals heightened risk of kidney and heart disease, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.. Insulin resistance precedes the development of Type 2 ...

Viagra Improves Insulin Sensitivity in Those with Prediabetes

If a person has insulin resistance, their body can't make enough insulin to clear blood sugar, or it doesn't work well enough to lower the sugar. The research published in 2015 in The Journal of ...

High-dose drug for erectile dysfunction improves long-term blood sugar ...

A small group of patients with type 2 diabetes significantly improved their long-term blood sugar levels when treated with high-dose tadalafil, a medication used to treat erectile dysfunction.

Treatment with Sildenafil Improves Insulin Sensitivity in Prediabetes ...

Result: Twenty-one subjects completed each treatment arm. After 3 months, the insulin sensitivity index was significantly greater in the sildenafil group compared to the placebo group by 1.84 mg/kg/min per μU/mL*100 (95% confidence interval, 0.01 to 3.67 mg/kg/min per μU/mL*100; P = .049), after adjusting for baseline insulin sensitivity index and body mass index.

Effect of low-dose tadalafil once daily on glycemic control in patients ...

Background Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors restore nitric oxide signaling, that plays a significant role in erectile function, and appears to counteract insulin resistance in animal and human models. This study was aimed to evaluate the glycemic and metabolic effects of low-dose tadalafil once daily in patients with type 2 diabetes and erectile dysfunction. Methods A 6-month, randomized ...

Sildenafil Citrate for Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction in Men With ...

OBJECTIVE—In the 5-10% of diabetic men with type 1 diabetes, erectile dysfunction (ED) may be a particularly common and unwanted complication.This is the first study focusing exclusively on the effects of sildenafil in men with type 1 diabetes and ED. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—A total of 188 patients were entered into a double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, flexible-dose ...