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Restricting insulin doses triple risk of death, study shows

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By ABC7
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

But a new study finds those women triple their risk of dying compared to women who do not skip insulin doses. The lead author of the study published in Diabetes Care says this is a very important women's health issue in diabetes and that it happens at shockingly high rates.

Insulin treatment has been linked to weight gain and the practice of restricting insulin is referred to as diabulimia.

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