The continuing legacy of the United Kingdom Prospective  Diabetes Study

Five years after the completion of the study, some of its benefits have been maintained

1 School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, WA.
2 Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW.

Correspondence:

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4. UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) Group. Effect of intensive blood-glucose control with metformin on complications in overweight patients with type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 34). Lancet 1998; 352: 854-865.

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