Quoted: The whole idea of preventing diabetes is â??a sleight of hand by pharmaceutical sponsors,â? argues James Stein, a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thereâ??s no difference between a diabetic on a diabetes drug and a pre-diabetic on a diabetes drug, he argues, unless you can show long-term benefits that outweigh the very serious short-term side effects that all of these medicines have.
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