Health Report - Separate stories podcast
Oct 23, 2026 · 9 min · 8 segments
In hospital regular medications are sometimes paused while the patient recovers from other illnesses and procedures. But a new study about discontinuation of diabetes medication shows it is not…
Norman SwanHostTamara MilderGuestPreeya AlexanderHost
So what they did was they used dispensing data, in other words, data from pharmacies about whether or not they dispensed these drugs and hospitalization data, so linking hospitalization to dispensing data over a period of 90 days to link these two drugs to see what the 90-day use looked like.
So the other drug was used almost as a control because it didn't have this side effect of diabetic ketoacidosis.
So what they did was they used dispensing data, in other words, data from pharmacies about whether or not they dispensed these drugs and hospitalization data, so linking hospitalization to dispensing data over a period of 90 days to link these two drugs to see what the 90-day use looked like.
So the other drug was used almost as a control because it didn't have this side effect of diabetic ketoacidosis.
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