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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oldvatr" data-source="post: 2443974" data-attributes="member: 196898">The article starts with an observation that the diabetic patients in the waiting room are undernourished, thin, and anemic.  But then it digresses into a discussion on B12 and whether it might also cause diabetes.  But thinking about it, the upper echelons of Indian society might be able to regularly access dairy and meat and fresh fish produce for their diet, the poor lower caste members are not so blessed.  Also, there are strong religious mandates for a vegetarian or vegan way of living apart from the economic ones.  So the anemia could be due to missing B12, but not diabetes IMO.  The continent of India has one of the highest rates for diabetes according to the WHO surveys,  The article does not discuss this possible link but it is a strong confounder.</blockquote>

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