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Shaping the future of diabetes care - Roche

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Diabetes is not curable, but it is manageable<br />

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• Detect <strong>diabetes</strong> at an early stage and treat it correctly<br />

– Type I (10 %) – insulin <strong>the</strong>rapy<br />

– Type II (90 %) – insulin, oral, exercise, diet etc...<br />

• Blood glucose levels for people with <strong>diabetes</strong> are generally<br />

too high and subject to extreme fluctuations<br />

• Insulin is lacking or completely unavailable – or it is<br />

available but not sufficiently effective<br />

• Insulin <strong>the</strong>rapy:<br />

– measure blood glucose levels regularly<br />

– determine insulin requirement<br />

– administer insulin<br />

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