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Creating Comics to Support People With Type 2 Diabetes
Sometimes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Pictures can often share ideas, meaning, and feelings that words sometimes cannot express. Over the past four months, I have had the pleasure of working with patient partners and researchers to create a comic book showing the experience of someone starting a Type 2 diabetes remission program....
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Type 2 Diabetes Remission: A Real Possibility
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a serious condition, but did you know that for some people, it’s possible to temporarily reverse it? This isn’t just wishful thinking; it’s a real concept called type 2 diabetes remission. T2D remission means that a person’s blood sugar levels have returned to normal without needing diabetes medication. With the...
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Metabolic Surgery as a Tool for Diabetes Remission: What the Studies Show
Although the exact cause is not known, type 2 diabetes is linked to obesity. For people who are very obese or unable to lose weight, bariatric surgery for obesity, often called metabolic surgery, can achieve weight loss and may improve diabetes control and sometimes put it into remission. This means that blood sugar levels will...
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Remission versus Cure – What’s the Difference?
Whether healthcare providers use the term remission or cure to describe the effect of treatment on diabetes or any disease depends on what is known about the disease. “Cure” is typically used when discussing the treatment of a wide variety of infections, some conditions causing pain, and various other medical problems. It is typically used...
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Type 2 Diabetes Remission
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is usually thought of as a long-lasting condition. It has typically been treated with a healthy diet, regular physical activity or exercise, and a variety of medicines, including insulin. However, discoveries over the last ten years have led scientists to wonder if T2D can be put into a remission. First, when...