A couple of basic errors

John Richards   (2010-01-11 19:14)  NHS

You seem to have not quite grasped a couple of basic points about the science in paragraph 6.
For one thing, type II diabetes is not a disorder of insulin production but of insulin response - the pancreas is still producing insulin, but for some reason the body's tissues don't react to it as much as they used to.
Secondly, references 5 and 6 are not, as you imply, randomised control trials. One is a meta-analysis of 13 cohort studies and one is a cohort study itself. This is stated quite clearly in the abstracts.
Third, while poor glycaemic control and post-prandial hyperglycaemia were cited as independent risk factors for all-cause mortality, they were not cited as risk factors specifically for cardiovascular disease.
I'm sure you'll correct these errors in due course.

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