征服糖尿病的信心和力量

Confidence and strength for conquering diabetes

在2012年,有两则消息为对抗糖尿病海啸的战争带来了信心和力量。首先,确立信心的消息来自于在1997～2006年一项研究报道,显示美国糖尿病患者死亡率大幅度下降,减少了糖尿病和非糖尿病成年患者之间的绝对差值,这条充满希望的消息说明在真实世界的临床实践中,糖尿病循证医学推荐的管理策略和指导意见已被落实和执行。其次,力量的消息来自于世界卫生组织(WHO)公告,就建立针对非传染性疾病,如心脏病、糖尿病、癌症、慢性肺病的首个全球监测框架已在WHO成员国间一致通过,监测框架包括9个自愿性全球目标和25项与非传染性疾病防治相关的具体指标,这些具体指标包含的政府职责对其防治的世界性普及提供强大而持久的动力。凭借着有效的武器和来自政府长期提供的力量,战胜糖尿病的曙光就要来临。

In 2012, two pieces of news had brought confidence and strength to the frustrating foot solders in fighting diabetes Tsunami. The first confidence-building news was a study reporting that death rates among both U. S. men and women with diabetes declined substantially between 1997 and 2006, reducing the absolute difference between adults with and without diabetes. This promising news indicating that in real world clinical practice, the evidence based diabetes management strategies recommended in diabetes guideline had worked. The second news of strength generating is the announcement from WHO that The first-ever global monitoring framework to combat non-communicable diseases （NCD）, such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic lung disease, has been agreed this week by WHO Member States. The framework comprises nine voluntary global targets and 9.5 indicators to prevent and control diseases. Those concrete governmental commitments will provide a powerful and sustainable driving force to drive the current endeavor in curbing the pandemic of NCD in the world. With the powerful weapon in hand and new strength from the long-term governmental engagement, the twilight of winning the battle against diabetes is emerging.