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Scientists at UMC Amsterdam may have found a treatment that prevents diabetic patients (type 2) from injecting insulin. Jacques Bergman and Annieke van Baar discovered the method of treatment by chance.
Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases in the Netherlands: one million people have it. Some of the patients with type 2 diabetes have to inject insulin daily
The new way of treating this group seems to be able to treat 70 000 borderline cases at first, said Bergman in the NOS Radio 1 News . ]. This concerns patients who are already taking medications, but whose blood sugar level is high, that they will soon have to inject insulin.
Bergman explains the treatment method: "In a group of 50 patients in this category, we have a balloon in the mouth inserted into the duodenum that we filled very briefly, but ten seconds, with hot water , so that the duodenum is cooked superficially in about ten centimeters. "
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