Doctors and patients unaware diabetes can be reversed

Type 2 diabetes could be beaten into remission if patients shed around 15kg, the report said. 

The  study called for greater awareness that the disease is not incurable.

Researchers said type 2 diabetes is generally considered incurable, but evidence was growing to refute that. 

Type 2 diabetes now affects a lot of people around the world. The  international figures suggesting medical costs for people with diabetes are two or three times greater than the average for non-sufferers of similar age and sex.
 A Professor said 488 different drugs are currently licensed worldwide to treat type 2 diabetes by lowering blood glucose levels."They are not treating the disease process, and are missing the point," he said."Not only is type 2 diabetes preventable by not getting fat in the first place, but as long as you get in early after the disease is established - in the first five years or so - you have a better than even chance of becoming non-diabetic."

The report suggested there is poor awareness of the benefits of weight loss leading to remission from the disease, with the authors arguing that is because it is rarely recorded officially.

A  study they quoted found remissions in only 0.14% of 120,000 patients followed for seven years.The  report said: "Lack of agreed criteria and guidance over recoding may have led to hesitation in coding remission, but the main reason for the low recording is probably that few patients are attempting or achieving remission. 

"Patients and doctors may be unaware that type 2 diabetes can be reversed, despite recent publicity.
"It is in everybody's interest to reclassify people with type 2 diabetes when they become non-diabetic. Official guidelines and international consensus for recording diabetes in remission are needed." 

A head of research  said: "The ability to put type 2 diabetes into remission could be transformative for millions of people around the world, and evidence is building to suggest that it's possible."In the meantime, we need to ensure that those who do achieve remission are recognised in the right way and receive the right care."

The researchers argued that achieving remission not only has health benefits, it produces a strong sense of personal achievement and empowerment, removes stigma, and may even reduce insurance premiums. 

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