Hadassah University Hospital
On the road to defeating diabetes
We have recently demonstrated that a new family of drugs can dramatically impact patient CV and renal outcomes and have a positive effect on these dangerous complications. The results of the recent trials suggest that very early treatment of diabetes or even pre-diabetes with these drugs can dramatically change the future of over 600 million people and even more patients with diabetes by 2040. Drug therapy, however, as good as it is, will never completely override the damage induced by obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes. Moreover, early diagnosis of diabetes might still be too late to prevent long term complications of diabetes including CVD and cancer. The main efforts should be put on improving lifestyle of the general population, populations at risk and populations with pre-diabetes, concentrating on children.