Joseph M Pappachan
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
Title: Individualized diabetes care: The real-world experience
Biography
Biography: Joseph M Pappachan
Abstract
Diabetes is a clinical condition not only associated with insulin deficiency (absolute in Type-1 Diabetes Mellitus [T1DM] and relative in Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus [T2DM]), but also with number of hormonal and metabolic abnormalities. Control of diabetes and its complications mainly depends of the individual’s engagement with self-management of glycemia and other metabolic abnormalities that varies from patient to patient. Individualized diabetes care is therefore the only option to optimize diabetes management. This must be through consideration of different issues faced by individual patients broadly guided various clinical guidelines. The role of diabetes care professional is mainly to empower the patient to identify his/her problems, motivate the individual to tailor an appropriate self-management algorithm during clinic visits and follow up the cases as and when necessary. With the aid of 3 unique case scenarios (an obese T1DM case with high degree of insulin resistance, an obese steroid-induced T2DM and a case of diabetic dyslipidemia) the role and importance of individualized diabetes care is discussed in this presentation.