There is no better source of information regarding the complications that can accompany medications you take, than your own pharmacist.

Your own physician can direct you to information regarding the diabetes prevention study and whether you can participate. Do be aware that it’s a study – in order to be meaningful, they have to have an equal number of subjects who DO NOT recieve the kind of care they’re studying – and for the subject to know WHICH group they were in – the study group or the control group – would invalidate the study.

That has happened with a number of such studies – patients managed to find out, or simply guessed (often as not, guessed wrong) that they were in the control group, and they refused to continue in the study, or began swapping medications amongst themselves, in an understandable effort to ensure that they at least got “some” of the “good stuff”.

There’ve been instances of researchers accepting bribes of money, property and/or sex for information that should’ve remained confidential. Their research was deemed worthless, and a number of them not only lost their jobs, a few were accused of fraud.  Bottom line: If you are in hopes of being admitted as a test subject, you must not expect to be allowed to choose which study group you’re inserted into.