quotable quotes - October 2008
treat early, early, early!
"If you treat patients early, you have extended benefit. You cannot wait to treat diabetes and should start treatment as soon as it is diagnosed. You will get added benefit by treating people early before waiting for them to get complications or waiting until glucose levels are extremely high."
- Rury Holman, FRCP (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK), commenting on the clinical implications of the legacy effect of earlier glucose control and metformin therapy seen in the ten year follow-up results from the UKPDS released at EASD 2008.
no magic bullets
"I think there will be a lot of advancements in the care of people with diabetes, but people have to remember there is not going to be a magic bullet to fix everything."
- Anne Peters, MD (USC Clinical Diabetes Program, Los Angeles, CA), commenting on the biggest changes in diabetes care and treatment during an interview with Close Concerns.
nobel prize winners on diabetes
"In his Nobel Prize Lecture, Dr. Banting stated that ‘insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment.’ It is important that we keep this point in mind as we try to find a way to cure diabetes."
-David Harlan, MD (NIDDK, Bethesda, MD), talking at CWD 2008 about the history of insulin and the need for treatments that stop the immune system from attacking the beta cells.
