Type 2 diabetes mellitus is primarily a pathology in which impaired insulin secretion is accompanied by insulin resistance. This lesion is irreversible. Therefore, the main goal of diabetes treatment is to control blood glucose levels and prevent complications. There is no drug or treatment modality that can cure diabetes.
The pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes is a disease in which insufficient insulin secretion is associated with insulin resistance, which in turn causes elevated blood glucose as the main clinical manifestation. The long-term elevation of blood glucose can lead to complications in the heart, brain, blood vessels, kidneys, and eye fundus. The damage of pancreatic islet function and insulin resistance is irreversible, so there is no treatment drug or program that can cure diabetes. The main goal of diabetes treatment in our clinic is to lower blood glucose and reduce acute and chronic complications of diabetes.
Treatment options include: health education, exercise therapy, monitoring of blood glucose, medication, and insulin therapy. The five therapeutic measures can control the patient’s blood glucose to within normal levels, but normal blood glucose after control does not mean that diabetes is cured. If the diabetes treatment program is stopped at this point, blood sugar will still rise to the pre-treatment level. Therefore, type 2 diabetes is not curable.