Technology News
Technology News Times’ Number 1 Type 2 Diabetes prevention App https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2020/jul/low-carb-program-ranked-best-health-app-2020.html Flash Glucose Monitoring Could Reduce Duration of Type 2 Hypoglycaemia https://www.medwirenews.com/diabetes/liberates-hypoglycemia-acs-flash-monitoring/18408618
Research Corner
University of Exeter and Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust research revealed at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) 2020 on-line event, suggests screening could give two years’ extra type 2 diabetes alert. https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/9143/presentation/1514 The findings from a recent study by a University of Buffalo researcher and others could prove to […]
PDGN News
We have 11 members in the Lebanon and our thoughts and good wishes go out to them, their families and friends following the devastating explosion in Beirut where most are based. Oh Vienna! It was a most unusual European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) annual meeting this year. Technically we were in Vienna, […]
Australia: Type 2 Guidelines for Young People
Guidelines for identifying, preventing and managing Type 2 diabetes among young people in Australian and New Zealand have been published for the first time. Type 2 diabetes in children has been rare but numbers are rising. Consequently, this is the first-time guidance for children and teenagers that PDGN has heard about. Up until now healthcare professionals […]
India: Study Could Lead to More Precise Type 2 Treatments
A study involving over 19.000 people with type 2 diabetes using eight clinically relevant variables including age at diagnosis, waist circumference and HbA1c levels has made a finding that could facilitate a more precise treatment of the disease. The India-based study of people with type-2 diabetes has identified four “clusters”, or novel subgroups of individuals, […]
United States: Pramila’s Bill Approved
Representative Pramila Jayapal’s (pictured) South Asian Heart Health Bill has passed another stage in Congress. As reported during earlier stages, the US House of Representatives has now passed a bipartisan bill aimed at raising awareness about the alarming rate of heart disease in South Asian communities throughout the United States while investing in strategies to […]
United Kingdom: COVID-19 Greater Risk Among Asians
The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published a report showing Asian people are up to five times more likely to contract Covid-19 than white people. The research also found that more than half of pregnant women with Covid-19 are from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds and warns that BAME communities could […]
Bangladesh: Once-a-Week Injectable Drug for Type 2 Diabetes
Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Ltd (HPL) and Eli Lilly and Company today announced the launch of Trulicity (dulaglutide) in Bangladesh. This is the first once-a-week use, injectable medication designed to improve blood sugar control in adults with type 2 diabetes, according to a press release issued to media. The drug comes in an easy to use, single-dose […]
More News From Around The World: Canada
First Nation Children 25 Times More Likely to Have Type 2 A newly released study has found that children in First Nations communities are 25 times more likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes compared to other children in Manitoba. The study was conducted by the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) in partnership […]
Advocacy Brings Results
Across the world great strides are being made increasing awareness of diabetes and its comorbidities with some of the most effective actions being taken where cross-party groups operate. PDGN exists to help form such groups and to support them, as well as to assist the advocacy of elected politicians working alone. PDGN members can tap […]
South Africa: Diabetes Behind South Africans Increasing Risk of Vision Loss
Loss of vision due to diabetic eye complications and age-related visual conditions is on the rise in South Africa. Diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes that damages the blood vessels in the retina at the back of the eye, is the leading cause of vision loss globally. The number of people with diabetics in South […]
Benefits of Soybeans in Type 2 Prevention
A leading nutrition expert has urged Nigerians to explore soybeans as a good food source, to alleviate malnutrition and achieve good health. Professor Ibiyemi Olayiwola, Professor of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), described soybeans as an excellent source of protein, with the added advantage of being affordable. She noted that […]
Nigeria
Besides Covid-19 where cases approach 60,000 and over 1,000 deaths, Nigeria has a huge burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Covid statistics actually paint an impressive picture for a nation of 200 million people with a comparatively weak health system. The country is suffering from another health crisis that hardly came in the limelight. The […]
Kenya: Fresh Launch for Kenya’s Universal Health Coverage Programme
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe (pictured) has said the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) programme will be launched afresh to serve Kenyans better.UHC, whose pilot phase was launched in December 2018 by President Uhuru Kenyatta. It is intended to ensure all Kenyans have access to preventive, promotive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health services at minimum financial […]
Zimbabwe: Nurses Behind Better NCD Management
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) are estimated to account for 31% of total deaths, with diabetes, hypertension and asthma as the main killers in Zimbabwe. The country has been facing a number of challenges most notably in the health sector. Healthcare workers are overwhelmed and doctors, especially in rural areas, are scarce. Millions of Zimbabweans are disconnected […]
Africa News Special
High Blood Pressure and Diabetes top Covid Killers in Africa A World Health Organisation (WHO) analysis of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in 14 countries across Africa found that hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma are the comorbidities most associated with Covid-19 deaths. In Kenya, around half of Covid-19 deaths were of people with NCDs while in […]
Insomnia Recognised as Indicators of Late onset Type 2 diabetes
A new ‘global atlas’ study published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]) is the first to identify insomnia as a risk factor associated with increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D). The study identifies 34 risk factors that are thought to increase (19) or decrease risk […]
First Audit of FreeStyle Libre
The Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) have conducted the first national (UK) audit of one of the increasing numbers of glucose monitoring devices. Studying Abbot’s FreeStyle Libre device they found from 10,000 users across 102 UK hospitals that the system improves control and patient awareness of low blood glucose levels. The report also concludes […]
Heart Attacks Twice as Likely with Type 2 Diabetes
Researchers from Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, found that people with diabetes can reduce their risk for heart attacks in half, simply by taking medications designed to prevent them. People with type 2 diabetes are twice as likely to have a heart attack or die from heart disease compared to people without diabetes. The research results […]
Diabetes and Covid – The Deadly Duo
More studies are being published into the clear link between diabetes and covid-19 and the dangers for people with diabetes who survive the virus suffering severe long-term adverse health effects. Studies from China, UK, Italy and the USA, have shown that people with diabetes have a higher risk of more adverse outcomes from COVID‐19 compared […]