• pingveno@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Diabetes can damage the kidneys, so presumably the patient got a kidney transplant. But yeah, looks like the journalist is getting the causation the wrong way round, I can’t think of why a kidney transplant would recover pancreatic islet function.

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      5 months ago

      damage the kidneys

      Ah thank you for resurfacing that fact I forgot. But I think you are right about the causation

      Another fun fact is it also causes foot problems including ingrown toe nails