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Progress in reducing vascular complications of diabetes

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Reducing or eliminating the clinical burden associated with the debilitating long-term complications of diabetes has long been a goal of management of this disease. A new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggests that we are closer to achieving this goal than previously thought.

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Booth, G., Zinman, B. Progress in reducing vascular complications of diabetes. Nat Rev Endocrinol 10, 451–453 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2014.90

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