Tokyo Women's Medical University

School of Medicine

Diabetology and Metabolism

Overview

The Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases was established in 1978 as an independent department based on the Diabetes Center established in 1975. We conduct pre- and post-graduate education and basic and clinical research on diabetes and metabolic diseases such as dyslipidemia, obesity, atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome, and their various complications, focusing on diabetes.　Diabetes mellitus is a disease characterized by chronic hyperglycemia resulting from inadequate insulin action, which causes a wide range of metabolic abnormalities leading to retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy and various macrovascular disorders, in other words, systemic vascular disorders.
The Department of Diabetes and Metabolism and the Department of Diabetic Ophthalmology work in close collaboration with the various clinical departments to provide team-based care to the ever-increasing number of diabetic patients.
In terms of research, the Department of Diabetes and Ophthalmology focuses on the etiology and pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy, while the Department of Diabetes and Metabolism has eight research groups (pediatric young, pregnant women, cardiovascular disorders, foot lesions, neuropathy, obesity lipid disorders, renal, and genetic-related). Please refer to the Education Details.

Education Details

Our department has eight research groups (Pediatric Young, Pregnant Women, Cardiovascular Disorders, Foot Lesions, Neurological Disorders, Obesity Lipid Disorders, Renal, Genetic-related) and an Ophthalmology group for retinopathy research.
Specifically, the research activities include analysis of etiology and causative genes of diabetes (type 1, type 2, and certain other types) by molecular biological approaches, development of new treatment methods, etiology and treatment of chronic complications and their risk factor analysis, research on diabetes and pregnancy, etiology and treatment of obesity and dyslipidemia, and epidemiological approaches to the prognostic factors for the development of diabetes and its complications.
In 2012, a large-scale prospective observational study (DIACET) on the actual status of diabetes care was initiated, and the results are being returned to patients to improve treatment for tomorrow.

Faculty

Tetsuya Babazono
Tomoko Nakagami
Asako Sato
Naoko Iwasaki
Keiko Yanagisawa
Junnosuke Miura
Go Hanai
Hiroko Kobayashi
Junko Oya

Graduate School

Graduate School of Medical Science_Diabetology and Metabolism

Related links

Research Achievements Database

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