REGARDING THE CLASSIFICATION, PREDICTION AND PREVENTION OF DIABETES

Abstract

I don’t know who did use for the first time the terms of diabetologist and diabetology. Diabetologia, the most famous European journal in this field has already 53 years and those who created it were, of course diabetologists. “The antidiabetic center” from Bucharest was established 72 years ago, thus the author of this success becoming the first Romanian diabetologist. The “CI Parhon” National Institute of Endocrinology in Bucharest was established in 1946. Fortunately, the relationships between Constantin I. Parhon (President of the Great National Assembly in 1947) and Ion Pavel (a close of the Romanian Royal House) were of mutual respect. This is why in Romania endocrinology never included diabetes and the Romanian diabetology could develop progressively and independent, without barriers but also without the backup it would have deserved. C.I. Parhon (1874-1967) lived for 93 years while I. Pavel (1897-1991) lived for 94 years. Each of them left behind a medical specialty in its own.