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Besides diabetes, what are some other common diseases and abnormalities of glucose metabolism?
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Diabetes: Hi. The only things to be concerned with are diabetes and its common precursor, prediabetes. Prediabetes has a very high rate of progression to diabetes. The very (and I mean VERY) rare risk of hypoglycemia in non-diabetics (insulin-producing tumors or beta cell hyperplasia) is so extremely rare that you needn't worry yourself about it. The nonsense "hypoglycemia" diagnosis claimed by many is poop
Answered 9/15/2014
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