Is there a cure for diabetes?

There is currently no diabetes cure, although there is a treatment that can help people maintain a normal life. Insulin or other medicine that either increases the natural production of insulin or reduces glucose release, can be used to treat the disease. However, not all cases respond well to these drugs. In type 1 diabetes. In fact, insulin is destroyed by the body, which can be extremely harmful to the person's health.

Insulin is carried in small cells called islets and studies have begun to see if donor islets can provide a cure for diabetes. The first study on the transplantation of islands was evaluated only by two patients in New Zealand who received islets from the pig donor. The original results indicate the possibility of more tests on the transplantation of islets, although no entity was able to completely end their dependence on insulin. The test did not cure diabetes, but the number of islets that were transplanted were less than the body would normally require, so this technique still has a promise.

28. September 2006 New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a more comprehensive study on the island of Cure for Diabetes. The ists were transplanted from the deceased human donors and the tests were performed in several places around the world in 36 patients. In this test, which is still a small patient sampling, 44% of patients lived after one year independently of insulin. Another 28% had partially functioning islands and was able to reduce its insulin intake. The remaining 28% had no live grafts at the end of one year.

The study continued a year after this point and the results were less promising. Within two years, insulin required 76% of the group. Only five of the initial 36 people tested were able to remain independent of insulin on a two -year brand. Although the result is not a miracle cure for diabetes, it suggests that insulin dependence can be reduced by transplantation of islets in people with diabetes 1. Study nEzkoumal people with diabetes 2.

The islets transplant remains treatment, not treatment, unless scientists recalculate the number of transplanted islets and make adjustments that would allow more participants to become insulin independent. Undoubtedly, the research will continue to proceed in this respect, and perhaps a larger number participates in such testing. Medical scientists also continue to investigate other possible methods such as pancreatic transplantation that could eventually provide a drug for diabetes.