Understanding possibility of remission in diabetes
Understanding possibility of remission in diabetes
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Media Source: The Standard (Kenya)
Date: 8 October 2025
Diabetes is often described as a silent condition because many people live with it for years without knowing. At its root, is a problem with the way the body handles glucose, the sugar that fuels cells. There are three main types of diabetes. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease. Type 2, far more common, accounts for about 90 per cent…
Diabetes is often described as a silent condition because many people live with it for years without knowing. At its root, is a problem with the way the body handles glucose, the sugar that fuels cells. There are three main types of diabetes. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease. Type 2, far more common, accounts for about 90 per cent of global cases, developing when the body resists insulin or produces too little of it. A third type, gestational diabetes, arises during pregnancy, usually disappears after birth, but leaves mothers at higher risk of Type 2 later in life. In recent years, doctors have begun to speak of remission in Type 2 diabetes. “Screening is critical. Too many Kenyans are only diagnosed when complications have already developed,” says Dr Sairabanu Sokwalla, a consultant endocrinologist at Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi. Globally, diabetes cases have ballooned from 108 million in 1980 to more than 500 million today, according to the World Health Organisation.