Health: Study: Diabetes drug lowers amputation risk (AP)

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Study: Diabetes drug lowers amputation risk
    (AP)

 

AP - Doctors who gave diabetics a drug originally intended to lower patients' cholesterol found it reduced their risk of so-called minor amputation by 36 percent, a new analysis of research says. Researchers in Australia, Finland and New Zealand studied almost 10,000 patients aged 50 to 75 with type 2 diabetes, the kind linked to obesity.


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