The National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology told whether there will be a pill for diabetes

Director of the National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology named after Academician I. I. Dedov of the Russian Ministry of Health, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Natalya Mokrysheva said that the creation of a “magic” pill to cure diabetes is not expected in the next few decades.

According to Mokrysheva, there is no monogenic mutation that could solve the problem of diabetes in the entire population, and there is no pill that could help correct these mutations.

MOSCOW, October 6 - RIA Novosti. The creation of a “magic” pill to cure diabetes is not expected in the next few decades, said Natalya Mokrysheva, director of the National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology named after Academician I. I. Dedov of the Russian Ministry of Health, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

“I’m afraid we won’t get a magic pill to cure diabetes in the next few decades. Because, of course, firstly, there is no monogenic specific mutation that will solve the problem of diabetes in the entire population,” she said during a press conference in Moscow.