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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The conclusions reached by the authors of a recent autopsy study stating that incretin-based drugs to treat diabetes can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer are overstated and unnecessarily alarmist, according to a Critique published in Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics (DTT), a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The Critique is available free on the DTT website at http://www.liebertpub.com/dia.
Important differences between the two groups of patients studied were overlooked, leading to irresponsible claims made against two effective classes of glucose-lowering drugs used by millions of people with diabetes, say Evis Harja, MD, Jonathan Lord, MD, and Jay Skyler, MD, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (Florida). They identify specific flaws in the design and analysis of the autopsy study by Butler et al. (Diabetes 2013;62:2595?2604).
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-08-unsubstantiated-incretin-drugs-fiery-response.html
Important differences between the two groups of patients studied were overlooked, leading to irresponsible claims made against two effective classes of glucose-lowering drugs used by millions of people with diabetes, say Evis Harja, MD, Jonathan Lord, MD, and Jay Skyler, MD, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (Florida). They identify specific flaws in the design and analysis of the autopsy study by Butler et al. (Diabetes 2013;62:2595?2604).
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-08-unsubstantiated-incretin-drugs-fiery-response.html