Katie Bouman, 29: *takes picture of black hole 55 million light years away* Me, 29: "Lots of people have diabetes, and that's not ideal"https://twitter.com/DaniRabaiotti/status/1116723545613189120 …
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It turns out, according to my amazing research, that diabetes is bad for your health
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On a more serious note, pretty much all of our diabetes estimates are crap and it's very likely that the rates are much higher than official reports say so that's a bit terrifyingpic.twitter.com/0S3P94FkXv
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Replying to @GidMK
Would love to hear your thoughts on pre diabetes. I don't see it as a boom on pharma. I think for a lot of people the extra time warning could be really beneficial. We know diabetes can lead to some terrible outcomes. It would seem unethical to leave people on that trajectory
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It's a very complex argument. Partly that's because the main treatment for prediabetes is lifestyle rather than drugs, so it's not clear whether pharma would actually make any money from it. Also the cutoff is hotly debated
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