title: Can Diabetes Heal?- From Observations to Perspectives.
abstract: Diabetes, both type 1 and type 2, is considered a chronic incurable disease. Complete cure would bring enormous benefits in terms of both the prevention of complications and reduction of the very high resulting social cost. Recent advances in the study of autoimmune mechanisms for type 1 and some non-medical therapeutic approaches for type 2 shed light on the pathophysiology and induce optimism concerning a possible cure in the not-too-distant future. This perspective highlights the main mechanisms involved in the pathophysiology of the two forms of diabetes, as the latest research has revealed, and the resulting possible therapeutic strategies that may be involved in obtaining a cure.
authors.affiliation: Centro Diabete, Largo T. Solera 10, 00199 Roma, Italy. clblasi@tin.it.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blasi
mesh_terms: D017281:Cost of Illness; D048909:Diabetes Complications / Q000517:prevention & control; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D012074:Remission Induction; D035703:Therapies, Investigational / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*