VIDEO: ‘Vacation’ from diabetes is possible
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SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive, Sangeeta Kashyap, MD, discusses how weight loss is the key to type 2 diabetes remission and how remission can be possible in both short- and long-term scenarios.
Kashyap, assistant chief of clinical affairs in the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and a Healio | Endocrine Today co-editor, highlighted how achieving weight loss of at least 15% can lead to remission. Kashyap also noted that it is important to reduce stress to the pancreas to maintain diabetes remission, but more research is needed in this area.
“We have a lot of work to do in this area, but we’re so happy that many patients are able to hit remission and stay in remission for a certain amount of time,” Kashyap told Healio. “It’s a vacation from taking medications and possibly a vacation from having diabetes.”
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