Dr Rajiv Desai
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Novel Approach to Diabetes Mellitus
Novel Approach to Diabetes Mellitus: ________ The figure below shows diabetic patient self-administering insulin injection: ________ My novel hypothesis on diabetes mellitus (DM): _ Everybody knows that insulin is the only treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). However in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) diet, exercise, oral hypoglycemic agents (OHA) precede insulin therapy and only when OHA fails or severe diabetes at onset warrant insulin therapy. There are reports of short term early insulin therapy in all T2DM to protect b-cells of pancreas. I propose a hypothesis that every T2DM patient needs insulin treatment from day one of diagnosis and it ought to be continued indefinitely. By the time diagnosis of diabetes is made, 50 to 80 % of b-cells of pancreas are dead (dysfunctional). The logic is that exogenous insulin will reduce load on surviving b-cells of pancreas, protect surviving b-cells and achieve better glycemic control and […]
