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Granted, you'd get a huge increase in survival signal just by reducing everyone's diabetes, but maybe I'm just being cynical... (i guess since this is HN the s

• SwellJoe 9y ago
  Given how many people in the western world are pre-diabetic due to diet and lifestyle, maybe curing that would be a miraculous result in and of itself. I mean, it wouldn't directly help those of us who aren't on that path, but in terms of general societal health and average lifespan, it still seems pretty great. I like it when people don't die. It could potentially save all of us some money, too.
• aoeusnth1 9y ago
  Irrc, in one of the articles posted about Metformin on HN a couple weeks ago, they discussed how diabetes patients on Metformin were living longer and had less cancer than people with diabetes who were on other diabetes medications. That does seem to counteract the effect you were suggesting.