Diabetes Expert Q&A — Professor Tang on Diabetes (Clinical Expert Q&A Series)

Author: Tang Wenlong
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Publish Date: 2002-09-27
Features: Answering diabetes doubts, stepping out of the of rehabilitation. Improve your health quotient, grasp the initiative of health. — With this book, health is in your hands. With the rapid growth of China's economy, the swift improvement of people's living standards, and the rapid formation of an aging society, the prevalence of diabetes in China is sharply increasing. It is estimated that currently, there are 30 million diabetes patients in China, and diabetes is rapidly becoming a major disease that threatens people's health and affects China's socialist construction. The threat of diabetes lies not only in its high prevalence but also in its ability to cause chronic complications such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular accidents, lower limb necrosis, kidney failure, and blindness, leading to disability or premature death, bringing great suffering to patients and their families, and causing enormous waste of funds and resources for the country. However, despite the sharp increase in diabetes prevalence, its significant harm, and the lack of a cure at present, it is a preventable and treatable disease. As long as we work together, we can prevent the occurrence and development of diabetes and its complications, and minimize the damage diabetes brings to humanity. In the prevention and treatment of diabetes, the principle of "prevention first" must be implemented, taking preventive measures before problems arise. First, we must vigorously carry out diabetes education and publicity work, ensuring that knowledge about diabetes is widely disseminated to the greatest extent possible, minimizing the costs of ignorance about diabetes, and helping those at risk of diabetes avoid or reduce the incidence of the disease. For diabetes patients, we should continue to provide more in-depth and detailed diabetes education, empowering patients to take the initiative in their treatment, achieving better control of their condition, preventing complications, and avoiding disability or premature death due to diabetes complications. Diabetes education is extremely important in the prevention and treatment of diabetes, and diabetes popular science publications play a very important role in this. This is the original intention of the book's author. Tang Wenlong, the author, studied with the author at Peking Union Medical College in his early years and is currently a member of the Guilin Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, vice chairman of the Guangxi Branch of the Chinese Endocrine Society, and a part-time professor of internal medicine at Guilin Medical University. He is also a chief physician of the Endocrinology Department at the Second People's Hospital of Guangxi Autonomous Region. He has been engaged in the prevention and treatment of diabetes for many years and has meticulously compiled this book based on his experience and insights in diabetes education. The book systematically and comprehensively introduces the basic knowledge, etiology, pathology, complications, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment principles of diabetes. The book consists of 106 questions, making it suitable for diabetes patients, their families, and the general public, as well as serving as a reference for grassroots medical personnel or general practitioners in the prevention and treatment of diabetes.