Un nuevo paradigma para la época de la prevención de la diabetes / A new paradigm for diabetes prevention era

La definición de la diabetes ha cambiado sucesivamente a lo largo de su historia de más de 3 000 años, a medida que la ciencia ha proporcionado nuevos datos sobre la patogenia de sus manifestaciones clínicas. Esta revisión analiza el origen y la evolución subsiguiente de las sucesivas definiciones de la diabetes mellitus a la luz de la información proporcionada por las ciencias médicas, y pretende estimular el análisis crítico de los enfoques vigentes, para ayudar a desarrollar nuevos paradigmas acordes con los nuevos retos que plantea la creciente epidemia de obesidad y de diabetes que sufre la humanidad actualmente..(AU)

Definition of term diabetes has change successively during more than 3 000 years of its history just as science has provides new data on pathogeny of its clinical manifestations. The present review analyze the origin and the subsequent course of successive definitions of diabetes mellitus in the light of the information offered by the medical sciences and to promote the critical analysis of the prevailing approaches to help in development of new paradigms in keeping with the new challenges for the increasing obesity and diabetes epidemic suffering by humanity at present times...(AU)

Reconsidering the history of type 2 diabetes in India: Emerging or re-emerging disease.

The emergence of type 2 diabetes in India, coinciding with the country’s rapid economic development in the past several decades, is often characterized as a modern epidemic resulting directly from westernization. We draw on India’s agricultural, linguistic, medical, economic, religious and gastronomic history to examine the possibility that type 2 diabetes mellitus may have existed in ancient India, having subsequently declined in the two centuries leading up to the present. The implications of such a possibility vis-à-vis the role of westernization in the global diabetes aetiology are discussed. Additionally, an argument is made for careful application of the terms ‘westernization’ and ‘globalization’ in discussions of chronic disease aetiology, where their often totalizing discourses may obscure the sociocultural particularities of manifestations of these conditions in various global arenas.