This is part of why drug trials are done. Some portion of "high risk" people would not have developed it even without the drug so you need a "control" population to compare against. This 72% improvement over the control is significant.
I'm surprised an RN doesn't have a better grasp on how medications are tested for efficacy.
Exactly - they compare the results of a group that took the drug against the results of a group that did not take the drug.
This is pretty significant - my family has a history of diabetes, though it hasn't effected any of my siblings or myself yet. My grandmother had it and had to take insulin shots every day. Of course, that was back in the 1960's and 1970's - I don't know what other treatments are available that would help the situation these days.
The problem is a blind test is just that.. they have no way to know who will end up diabetic so we have no way to know for certain that the difference was the drug..
I would be called high risk.. I am over weight and come from a family with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.. yet my blood work is great.. If I had taken that drug they would have attributed it to the drug ...
We have become a country that is drug dependent ...the problem is every drug has side effects and people end up dead or needing other meds (with their own side effects) to treat the new problem
Think of the market for THIS DRUG.. everyone THAT MIGHT be at RISK
So it is not treating anything except potential illness and it will be an unnecessary drug for lots of people.. lots of money goes to the drug company and out the mans pocket..
Type 2 diabetes can be controlled and managed.. even without drugs..