Vnitr Lek 2004, 50(Supplement 1):S76-S80

[New trends in diabetology].

S Svacina: III. interní klinika 1. lékarské fakulty UK a VFN, Praha.

Number of diabetics increases enormously in the whole world. In last years many new approaches and technologies were developed e.g. strategies of diabetes prevention, new findings in metabolic syndrome pathogenesis, new findings in postprandial state, new antidiabetic and antiobesity drugs, new insulin analogues, new technologies in glucose monitoring and insulin delivery, new approaches were developed also in insulin dosing in intensive care. Many changes will influence diabetology in next years: inhalation and bucal application of insulin, development of drugs functioning in all components of metabolic syndrome, automatisation of insulin dosing (closing of feedback from glucose level to insulin dosing), experiments with embryonic and stem cells in diabetology, preventive gene vaccination in both types of diabetes. Extreme incidence of diabetes is stimulating new technologies development in diabetology.