Major Threats to Human Health in the 21st Century Seminar Series: Diabetes and Cancer. I, Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome. Section 1: The discovery of Insulin: A new Era

The Diabetic syndrome constitutes one the major threatening on public health worldwide owing to its great prevalence. In fact, it is a true pandemic disease. Several complications aggravate the disease such as the cardiovascular damage, digestive cancers and also neurodegenerative diseases such as the Alzheimer disease. Even more importantly, the diabetic disease and its complications associates with others metabolic and pathophysiological disturbances such as obesity, hyperlipidemia, systolic hypertension and hyperuricemia conforming the named Metabolic Syndrome, the most prevalent pathology in humans and the great pandemic challenging the human longevity in the 21st century. The purpose of this Seminar Series is to follow up the historical diabetes, the type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease with and abrupt debut and the twenty-century diabetes, the type 2 diabetes, a progressive disease. Thus, the etiology of the type 2 diabetes will be uncovered, and the progression of the disease will be followed up from an initial event related to the insulin resistance and its progression to the full-blown diabetic phenotype, the manifest diabetes. Along this progression of the disease over decades of life, major complications will be arising such as the cardiovascular disease and the atherogenic process. Thus, the contribution of the insulin resistance syndrome to the Metabolic Syndrome, the final storm, will be discussed. Finally, we will address new complications that have emerged over the last decade related to the link between type 2 diabetes with the digestive cancer or the development of neurodegenerative diseases, singularly the Alzheimer disease.

Series I, program:

Section 1: The Discovery of insulin: A new Era (September 18th, 2023); Section 2: The discovery of type 2 Diabetes. The pandemics  (September 25th); Section 3: Diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome: The final challenge to longevity (October 2nd),  and Section 4: Diabetes and Dementia (October 16th)

                                All the seminars from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

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Speaker and Coordinator: Prof. Manuel R. Benito de las Heras (Emeritus Professor, Complutense University of Madrid, Visiting Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School)

Sponsor: RCCHU; Complutense University of Madrid, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University