The problem with the former cutoff of 140 is that by the time people were diagnosed with diabetes, about 20 percent already had complications, ... We know that the risk goes up sharply for those complications when the blood sugar gets to be about 126.
Many of these operators are in it just for the money. How could someone on Medicare or Social Security afford $20 a joint?
Potentially, there are 1 to 2 million people in the population who could be diagnosed using this criteria, ... We think that many will be diagnosed, since it's a relatively easy test to perform on routine blood work done in a doctor's office.
They're in the right place at the right time. If you try to find an industry with a projected three- to five-year growth rate as high as biotech, I don't think you'll find one.
It's not possible that you could get into the kinds of things that could do damage.