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When people are on these medications, all these beneficial things happen: Blood pressure gets better, cholesterol goes down, insulin resistance goes down, says the senior study author, Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, a clinical epidemiologist at WashU Medicine and the chief of the research and development service at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System, both in Missouri