"Diabetes Doesn't Have to be a Life Sentence" - Erin Billups
José Acuña was told he had diabetes years before he started feeling its effects. When doctors told him he needed to change his eating habits and exercise more, he ignored the instructions. “It was the worst decision I ever made in my life, not listening to that doctor then,” said José. According to Jaime Uribarri, MD, professor of nephrology and medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, diabetes is a disease “resulting from lifestyle problems, people who don't eat well, people who don't exercise, and they go through life without paying attention to that.” At The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute, researchers are focused on insulin-producing beta cells, found within the pancreas in order to teach a diabetic pancreas how to once again grow beta cells. Andrew Stewart, MD, professor of medicine, endocrinology, diabetes and bone disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai said, “I don't want to raise false hopes, but I would also say that this has legs. This is going to happen.”
— Jaime Uribarri, MD, Professor, Medicine, Nephrology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
— Andrew Stewart, MD, Professor, Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease, Director, Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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