• FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    As a type 1 diabetic with a type 2 family member I want to be excited but I cannot for the life of me be suspicious, what are the talking about with the kidney. I mean maybe I’m missing something I only have diabetes idk everything about it

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      5 months ago

      Diabetes can damage the kidneys, so presumably the patient got a kidney transplant. But yeah, looks like the journalist is getting the causation the wrong way round, I can’t think of why a kidney transplant would recover pancreatic islet function.

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        5 months ago

        damage the kidneys

        Ah thank you for resurfacing that fact I forgot. But I think you are right about the causation

        Another fun fact is it also causes foot problems including ingrown toe nails