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Dr Gerry Fegan MBChB, MRCP (UK), MD
Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist Fremantle and Rockingham Kwinana Hospitals
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Hundreds of West Australians with diabetes are now set to help scientists at the State’s Centre for Food & Genomic Medicine (CFGM) search for new medical tests to help tackle the growing diabesity epidemic.
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The regulation of abnormal sugar production in the liver can be very troublesome for people with diabetes; however scientists in Sydney and Boston believe they may have identified a gene that controls these levels.
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Scientists believe they may have found a preventative therapy for Type 1 diabetes, by making the body's killer immune cells tolerate the insulin-producing cells they would normally attack and destroy, prior to disease onset.
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Access Economics has reported that for the year 2004 vision impairment and blindness cost Australia $9.85 billion and affected nearly half a million Australians. Diabetic retinopathy is the fifth largest contributor to this burden.
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People with diabetes are at risk of a variety of bone related problems. Some are associated with the metabolic disturbances caused by diabetes.
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For all chest pain not typical of unstable angina, coronary CT is an appropriate test to help the doctor separate the biggest killer in the Western world (obstructive coronary atherosclerosis) from other, more benign causes.
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