Studies show that there are 415 million people who suffer from diabetes today and it is expected that this will increase up to 227 million by 2040. Diabetes is one of the most serious health issues in the world that it is included in top five causes of mortality.
People wait for regenerative medicines to be discovered by scientists to provide lab-grown pancreases as replacements of the infected ones and treat diabetes permanently. However, diabetes patients have to wait for these tools to be made so that their diseases will be managed.
The good news is that there are already approaches undertaken to make tools that function as such. Frost & Sullivan's transformational health program analysts predicted ways on how to manage diabetes in the future.
Analysts say that there will be a mandatory screening. It was ascertained that 1 out of 2 patients is actually undiagnosed. But, the diagnosis for diabetes is set to change when non-invasive methods for predicting diabetes risks will arrive soon.
It should also be noted that every individual is unique when it comes to exercise capabilities, inclination to eating sweets, metabolic rates, staying lean, predisposition to diabetes and many more. Today, DNA could be sequenced immediately through nutrigenomic profile. This kind of method combines the use of nutrition and genetics that will allow someone to prevent or avoid such disease.
Another way to monitor diabetes is by using non-invasive glucose method. This will end the many times when pricking fingers is necessary to determine whether or not a patient is diabetic.
According to Forbes, background therapy may also be a potential cure for diabetes by using stem cell-derived, lab-grown cells which will replace pancreatic cells. Another method is through analytic and artificial intelligence that will allow the patient to be informed of the things he needs to do in real time. It will be the best means to communicate personally with the patient.
According to Harvard Business Review, the best thing to treat diabetes is to prevent it. It requires various continuous behavioral interventions, education and support.