A patient has recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and is prescribed an antidiabetic medicine to improve insulin utilization. The patient tells the physician that a cousin has type 1 diabetes and asks the physician whether the cousin would take the same medication.What response is the physician most likely going to give to the patient?

Type 2 diabetes commonly involves insulin resistance, so medicines that improve how the body uses insulin may help. Type 1 diabetes occurs when the body cannot produce enough insulin, typically because insulin-producing cells have been destroyed, so treatment requires insulin rather than the same type 2 medicine. Therefore, the physician would explain that the cousin would not take the medicine for the same reason; choice C is correct.

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