Researchers repurpose diabetes drug for brain pressure
pharmatimes | August 24, 2017
Research led by the University of Birmingham indicates that a GLP-1 agonist drug, currently used to lower blood sugar in people with type II diabetes, could be repurposed to treat raised brain pressure. The condition commonly develops in emergency situations such as traumatic brain injury, hydrocephalus and stroke, but also plays a key role in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH), which can cause daily headaches, severely raised pressure around the nerves in the eye, and permanent vision loss.