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Have treatments for type 1 diabetes improved?

Griffin Rodgers, MD, director of diabetes, digestive and kidney disease at the National Institutes of Health, discusses the long-term study that has increased life expectancy and reduced eye disease risk for those with type 1 diabetes.


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