New trials offer hope for Aussies with type 2 diabetes
There’s growing hope for more than a million Aussies with type 2 diabetes.
A series of diabetes clinics across the country are now working together to revolutionise treatments offered to patients to help manage the condition.
Susan Kozij has been living with type 2 diabetes for more than 20 years.
At times, it can seem overwhelming.
“My mum had pretty bad diabetes, my grandfather died in his early 50s from a heart attack,” she said.
“I’ve already had two heart attacks.”
It’s one of a number of new trials offering hope to sufferers, to emerge from the Australian Diabetes Clinical Research Network.
That is, diabetes clinics across the country now working together trailing emerging treatments and management options.
“Some of the most gracious people that I look after have been part of our clinical trials and they’ve gained so much from it,” Professor Elif Ekinci from the Australian Centre for Accelerating Diabetes Innovation said.
Forty patients are taking part in a monitoring program in Brisbane.
It’ll soon be open to another 40.
But further trials are critically dependent on future research funding.
Those on this program are already showing improved glucose levels over two to three months.
Diabetes Australia CEO Justine Cain said Australia is in the middle of a diabetes “epidemic.”
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