A Global Call For Action Against Diabetes Launched

Filed in archive Inspiration on August 31, 2006

We're not going to take it anymore. Being fed up with the increasing number of patients afflicted with diabetes, as well as with the resulting costs to finances and health, led to a Consensus Report that demands immediate, thorough action.

Here are just some of the recommendations:

- Public awareness and patient empowerment must be improved

- Healthcare professionals must receive better education about insulin and the barriers to treatment so they can communicate the importance of optimal blood sugar control to patients

- Healthcare policy makers must understand the trust costs of diabetes.

Communicating the importance of getting to goal

- Help improve patient understanding that insulin treatment may eventually be needed due to the nature of diabetes and should be discussed as early as possible

- Insulin should be initiated appropriately and without delay

- Patient preference is important in all treatment decisions to encourage accurate self management.

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