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E-Mail BOSTON - The unprecedented increase in overweight and obesity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has led to an alarming rise in diabetes in these regions. Of the estimated 463 million people with diabetes worldwide, 79% live in LMICs. Until now, however, there were scant empirical data to guide clinicians and health systems in determining which individuals should be screened for diabetes based on body mass index (BMI). There are guidelines from the World Health Organization that recommend screening individuals age 40 and older with a BMI of 25 kg/m2 and above for diabetes, says Jennifer Manne-Goehler, MD, ScD, faculty member at the Medical Practice Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). But it s long been suspected that these BMI and age thresholds may not be optimal for diabetes screening in all regions of the world. Our goal was to estimate the relationship between BMI and diabetes risk across many low- and middle-income countries ....
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Health professionals trained to improve handling of diabetes HEALTH & SCIENCE Sponsored Content The first national diabetes training programme for primary care physicians in Africa closed on Tuesday this week, with preliminary outcomes presented at a virtual ceremony to mark the successful completion of the pilot project. The online training programme was launched in 2019 and has trained over 1,380 general practitioners (GPs) throughout Kenya. Tuesday’s event involved representatives from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), Diabetes Kenya Association (DKA), Kenya Diabetes Study Group, Sanofi Kenya and the Kenyan Ministry of Health. Speaking at the event, Professor Andrew Boulton, IDF President, emphasised the need for the training of healthcare professionals in Africa. ....
Article by Social Share Washington – The Pan American Health Organisation says the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) new Global Diabetes Compact aims to bring a much-needed boost to efforts to prevent diabetes in the Caribbean and other places and to bring treatment to all who need it. The compact was launched at the Global Diabetes Summit, which was co-hosted by WHO and the Government of Canada, with the support of the University of Toronto. During the event, the President of Kenya joined the Prime Ministers of Fiji, Norway and Singapore; the WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries, Michael R. Bloomberg; and ministers of health from a number of countries, as well as diabetes experts and people living with diabetes, to highlight the ways in which they will support this new collaborative effort. ....