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A cure for Type 2 diabetes?
Author(s) -
White David J. G.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
xenotransplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.052
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1399-3089
pISSN - 0908-665X
DOI - 10.1111/xen.12278
Subject(s) - white (mutation) , citation , library science , medicine , classics , history , computer science , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Diabetes is a chronic disease that inflicts significant life style changes and reduces life expectancy on the afflicted. In the United States 29.1 million people or 9.3% of the population have diabetes including an estimated 8.1 million who are undiagnosed. The 2012 cost of this disease in the US was $245 billion per annum or approximately $500,000 every minute [1]. Almost 90% of diabetics suffer from type 2 or “insulin resistant” diabetes. Thus any experimental data that indicate a potential treatment pathway for type 2 diabetes should attract the attention of not just health care professionals but also their patients and all those concerned about health care costs. It will certainly attract the attention (and perhaps panic) of the pharmaceutical industry.