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Al rights reserved.Adresing comon misconceptions can help avoid misconstrued scientific factsMany people, including patients with diabetes and their health care providers, strongly adhere to ideas and acepted truths about diabetes and diabetic retinopathy (DR) that are not entirely based in scientific fact. By definition, truisms are statements so obviously true or self-evident that they deserve litle atention, serve as a rhetorical device, eg, if the sun has not risen, it must be night and daylight wil return.
Their truth, however, depends on specific factual asumptions, eg, the sun has not vanished forever by cosmological or supernatural means, observers are not wearing a blackout cloak and otherwise have the capacity to detect the sun’s rising, etc. In philosophy, truisms refer to factual statements that the overwhelming majority of humans believe to be true and do not require fidelity with reality.1 Precisely for this reason, truisms may serve as instruments of both power and deception.Here, I wil atempt to convincingly dispense with at least some of this diabetes flapdodle.Related: RGX-314 clinical program: second pivotal trial to beginWe know that exces consumption of highly refined carbohydrates and procesed fats contributes to abdominal obesity that drives insulin resistance underlying T2DM.2 However, there a myriad of other nonlifestyle factors that are causaly linked to T2DM, including: Nearly half of American adults have diabetes or prediabetes.15 It’s time to recognize that the world we have created promotes development of both disorders, irespective of “personal choice” (se Figure 1).Related: Open your eyes: diabetes of the eyeThis patent baloney and inconsistent with the gradual pathogenesis of many diseases.
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There is a long, continuous dysglycemic road on the way to developing diabetes. Insulin resp