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Doctors can prescribe Lyxumia to patients following approval by the European Medicines Agency.
They have hailed the treatment as a major new tool in the arsenal to tackle the growing problem of Type 2 diabetes.
It works in tandem with insulin to regulate glucose levels in the body in patients who cannot keep this controlled with insulin alone.
Professor Anthony Barnett, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Birmingham, warned: "Eventually this disease is going to bankrupt the NHS if we don't do something about it."
By getting blood glucose under control "we can actually help patients dramatically reduce the risk of long-term horrendous complications," he said.
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A third of those could be helped with Lyxumia, which works by specifically reducing after-meal glucose, as well as complementing the reduction in before-meal levels from the insulin.
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Source-ANI