University of Basrah held a seminar about diabetes mellitus.
Pharmacy College at the University of Basrah held a seminar entitled: (Simaglutide to improve blood sugar control in adults with type 2 diabetes) .The seminar was presented by the lecturer Rawnaq Adel Yassin .The lucture included an explanation of type 2 diabetes, the chronic disease that results in high blood glucose which leads to long-term complications including coronary artery disease, peripheral arterial disease, stroke, retinopathy, neuropathy and nephropathy. The lecture showed a recent study that recommended to use glucagon like peptide 1 (GLP-1) as a treatment to reduce blood glucose in type 2 diabetes, giving a cardiovascular protection .As well as Semaglutide may reduce the rate of cumulative sugar in the blood without occurring of hypoglycemia as a side effect,furthermore this treatment is safe to use by patients as subcutaneous injection once per week as a method of administering this medication.
