News about diabetes: events, facts and developments on tafs uz.
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Physician Irina Starkova told Gazeta.Ru about the less obvious signals of diabetes: an enlarging belly at normal weight, drowsiness after meals, skin changes, women's symptoms, snoring and 'fluctuating' vision.
Otabek YusupovAccording to Izvestia, in at least 33 regions, diabetes patients have difficulty obtaining glucagon — a medication for emergency care when blood glucose drops sharply. Obtaining it through subsidized programs takes from two weeks to several months, and the price of the medication has risen from 700 to 14,000 rubles.
Aziz KarimovDipiaron, a capsule drug developed at the Volgograd State Medical University, has passed the first phase of clinical trials. In July, the Ministry of Health authorized the second phase involving 308 patients. The drug acts on the GPR119 receptor and, according to the developers, preserved pancreatic cells in animal experiments. If the research is successful, the drug could reach the market no earlier than 2028.
Aziz KarimovWHO's first global report on inequality in noncommunicable diseases showed that poorer and less educated population groups suffer more often from hypertension and diabetes, are screened for cervical cancer less often, and rural residents and young hypertensive patients are less covered by diagnosis and treatment.
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