Cardiovascular & metabolic disease
Cardiovascular and metabolic diseases can have a substantial impact on patients, their families and healthcare systems. We continue to challenge the way we think about these diseases and how we can improve health outcomes.
Diabetes is a chronic condition resulting from the body’s inability to sufficiently produce and/or properly use insulin.1 Insulin is a hormone that is produced by your pancreas, which is vital in regulating the body’s blood glucose (sugar) level.2
1 Public Health Agency of Canada. Diabetes Facts. Available at:
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/cd-mc/diabetes-diabete/facts-faits-eng.php
2 Endocrine Web. What is Insulin? Available at:
https://www.endocrineweb.com/conditions/type-1-diabetes/what-insulin
3 Diabetes Canada. What is Diabetes? Available at:
https://www.diabetes.ca/about-diabetes/what-is-diabetes
4 Mayo Clinic. Diabetes. Available at:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diabetes/symptoms-causes/syc-20371444
5 Diabetes Canada. Diabetes in Canada. Available at:
https://www.diabetes.ca/DiabetesCanadaWebsite/media/Advocacy-and-Policy/Backgrounder/2020_Backgrounder_Canada_English_FINAL.pdf