DOI: 10.2337/dc06-0997 © 2006 by the American Diabetes Association
Increased Cancer-Related Mortality for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Who Use Sulfonylureas or InsulinResponse to Farooki and Schneider
1 Institute of Health Economics, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Address correspondence to Dr. Jeffrey A. Johnson, #1200, 10405 Jasper Ave., Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 3N4, Canada. E-mail: jeff.johnson@ualberta.ca
We thank Farooki and Schneider (1) for their comments on our recently published article (2) on diabetes treatments and cancer-related mortality. As we had indicated (2), we agree with Drs. Farooki and Schneider that additional clinical data would aid our understanding of pathophysiologic mechanisms. Clinical intervention studies may be optimal in obtaining such pathophysiologic data. However, such studies may be impractical given the
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