Diabetes…the fastest growing chronic disease in the world, as around the world 220 million are approximately affected with it and in Australia 1.7 million person die from this disease becoming the sixth main cause of death in the country as it kills 1 out of 13 infected with this disease.
But when it comes to diabetes it’s not all about the numbers but also about the cost of treating patients as it is estimated to be 170$ billion for those with type 1 diabetes, and as stated could double to 340$ billion(a shocking cost), also the disease known as juvenile diabetes affect almost 10% of patients, the cost of this one is approximately 1$million for each person over his lifetime.
In Australia a professor who has an experience concerning this disease for more than 50 years, said that the numbers in Australia is very worrying and make Australia in the place of Finland back in 15 years ago, as the number for type 1 in Australia has became the double in the 20 years, while in Finland it was 50 person infected per 1000,000 under the age of 15 years.
In order to keep the blood glucose levels well balanced, patients of diabetes must inject themselves multiple time a day, even though compilations happen in 1patient out of 5 these complications called unaware hypoglycemia, but the problem is that these complications usually fails to trigger the secretion of epinephrine which is responsible for generating the symptoms of hypoglycemia that is suppose to give the patient a warning when the sugar levels have dropped.
Hypoglycemia is very dangerous as it is the reason for the death of 8% of patients beside many complications which due to this disease.
A potential cure for diabetic people is a transplantation surgery in which islets are taken from the pancreas of a deceased organ donor and transplanted into the patient in order to make the patients pancreas secrete more insulin, but the problem is that there is a high risk of rejection, also this transplant needs immuno-suppressant medications that cost about 250,000$, and sometimes have bad and serious effects.
So, duty to difficult procedures of the mentioned below surgery and the inquiries about its effectiveness, Prof. Elliot is supporting a break through novel cell implant treatment called DIABECELL® .
This new method of implanting aims to reduce the need for injections and constant observe of blood glucose levels as it helps to restore regulation of insulin to almost normal.
The company tried this test on special pigs (that has no viruses or bacteria) by performing a simple keyhole surgery, The heard was rescued from the remote Auckland islands and have effectively been in quarantine for the last 200 years.
