Quoted: “People who have Type 2 diabetes are producing insulin, but their cells no longer know how to use it and it becomes a progressive chronic disease,” said Dr. Sandra Kamnetz, a family physician with UW Health [and clinical professor of family medicine]. “Insulin brings to patients with diabetes an increased risk of heart attack; increased risk of a stroke; increased risk of ulcers to the feet leading to potential amputation; and a risk of chronic renal failure even ending up in dialysis.”
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