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Type 2 Diabetes

If we were to implement it along with diabetes screening strategies, such as the NHS Diabetes Prevention Program, we could actually reduce the number of Oral Glucose Tolerance Test that would need to be performed by half. This is one of the things that would require further follow-up studies and trials that are large enough specifically developed to assess the effectiveness of these three proteins. Because there are lots of databases available now, aren't there, where people have given blood samples? Yes. Presumably you could go to big data sets like that and now begin to comb through those looking at the same molecules and test it that way. Absolutely.

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