The scene, more and more common, is the following: the patient with diabetes out of control he enters the office with a diagnosis and leaves with another. A lot of attention now: he continues with diabetes, but medical research, later confirmed with laboratory tests, indicates other type of disease. It was not for nothing that. blood glucose never stood on goal. The guy didn’t have it type 2 diabetes, but a version known by the acronym THIEF – which comes from English and means “adult latent autoimmune diabetes”. It’s like one type 1 diabetes, the most common in children and adolescents and characterized by the aggression of immune system to the pancreas, only manifesting late. And what these nomenclatures change in practice? Now, the treatment. Our patient, for whom the combination of several pills had not had the expected effect, starts to use. insulin and, bingo!, glucose is finally tamed. Episodes like this used to correspond to 5% of cases initially labeled type 2 diabetes. But new estimates indicate that LADA, sneaky, is present in one in ten of these citizens. Few people? Not even. Diabetes as a whole affects more than half a billion people across the planet, at least 15 million in Brazil. If we consider that 90% of this audience has type 2, doing the math we will see that LADA is more significant than we think. The numbers of last atlas of the International Diabetes Federation they stressed that the problem, in its various forms, makes up one of the most complex equations in public health – not to mention the incalculable impact on the quality of life of people and families. And the horizon is not one of the most exciting. “We live in a scenario of weight gain, physical inactivity and inadequate diet. About 15% of our population has pre-diabetes, with great chances of developing the disease itself. And what scares me most is the number of individuals with diabetes who do not even know they have the disease ”, exposes endocrinologist Levimar Araújo, president of Brazilian Diabetes Society (SBD). + Read too: You have pre-diabetes? Make no mistake with that name To deal with the challenge of today and tomorrow, we need a 360-degree mobilization, supported by a lot science and as much or more effort from health professionals, public authorities and patients. And a starting point is to understand that not all diabetes is the same and how the personalization of treatment – accompanied by some standardized strategies, however paradoxical it sounds – will be decisive to enjoy what the advancement of medicine and technological innovation are about to offer. Source: Diabetes in transformation: what is changing in treatment – Magic Mistura を
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