Diabetes Management: a new journal addressing the management issues of a complex disease

Abstract

ISSN 1758-1907 Diabetes Manage. (2011) 1(1), 1–3 10.2217/DMT.10.7 © 2011 Future Medicine Ltd It is my pleasure, as an associate editor of Diabetes Management, to introduce the first issue of this journal. Diabetes Management will present findings, analyses and commentaries on the battle with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Articles published in Diabetes Management address improvements in current therapeutics and patient compliance, together with perspectives on future prospects. Coverage focuses on the key objective of stabilizing blood glucose levels in individuals with either of the main forms of the disease, gestational diabetes and the associated issues of patient co operation and education. The journal also reflects the frontiers of current research, such as attempts to recreate pancreatic cells through stem cell technology or islet cell transplantation, the development of preventive measures for Type 1 diabetes and the potential for biomarkers to be used for the detection of diabetes risk. The increasing understanding of the molecular basis of the disease and associated genetics will play an important part in future diabetes management. Today, we understand that prevention of diabetes is a key issue and starting point of diabetes management. Diabetes Management discusses the impact of encouraging healthier lifestyles to reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes and importance of education in this context, with respect to symptoms. The management of diabetes has wide socioeconomic implications to be tackled. There are several scientific journals related to diabetes. Nevertheless, it is obvious that there is a place and need for a new one, especially one that deals with the management of diabetes. The number of people with diabetes and prediabetes has dramatically increased in recent times and the number of scientific studies around diabetes and its management has increased drastically. We have all experienced, by the high rejection rate, that the existing diabetes journals cannot curently cope with the volume of studies and papers, and very good papers are increasingly rejected due to space constraints. Diabetes is a disease that has been known to humans for a very long time. Diabetes was first described in writing in 1550 BC, in an Egyptian medical text, ‘The Ebers Papyrus’, as a condition of passing too much urine. The papyrus was discovered in 1862 by the German Egyptologist, Georg Ebers. In the 1st Century AD, Aretaeus uses the term ‘diabetes’ meaning ‘a siphon’ in Greek to describe the disease as ‘melting down of