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NIH Hosts Seminar on Diabetes in Women
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Brief Description:
The National Institutes of Health played host recently to a seminar on
the unique problems faced by women suffering from diabetes.
Transcript:
SCHMALFELDT: The National Institutes of Health played
host recently to a seminar on the unique problems faced by women suffering
from diabetes. The conference — called "Stopping the Clock on Diabetes
in Women: Strategies for Prevention and Treatment Across the Lifespan" featured
speakers on a variety of topics, including preventing cardiovascular
complications of diabetes, information about gestational diabetes, and
diabetes self-management in the real world. The gathering was sponsored
by the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health, and the National Institute
of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Acting NIDDK Director,
Dr. Griffin Rodgers, was the keynote speaker. He talked about how this
disease touches many of the institutes and centers at the NIH.
RODGERS: The NIH supports, really, a broad spectrum
of research in diabetes. And this effort is really highly collaborative.
The NIDDK, as our name indicates, takes the lead in diabetes research
and coordination. But because the disease affects so many organ systems
and has so many different types of etiologies, including autoimmune diseases
for example, diabetes sort of goes throughout the spectrum of life, from
the child health institute (NICHD) and the aging institute (NIA). And,
of course, it has many complications including the eye, the cardiovascular
system, and the nervous system. There are a number of institutes intimately
involved in research in the area of diabetes. And we certainly appreciate
all the work that the Office of Research on Women's Health is doing in
really coordinating many of the efforts in diabetes research to really
support and enhance studies in diabetes in women.
SCHMALFELDT: A videocast of the seminar is available
online at videocast.nih.gov. From the National Institutes of Health,
I'm Bill Schmalfeldt in Bethesda, Maryland.
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