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dc.contributor.author | Pastakia, Sonak D. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Cheng, Stephanie Y | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kirui, Nicholas K. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kamano, Jemima H. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-07-18T07:40:17Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-07-18T07:40:17Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015-12-07 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/7817 | - |
dc.description.abstract | here has been considerable concern regarding the rapidly growing prevalence of diabetes, particularly in resource-rich settings as a result of the shift toward more sedentary lifestyles that occurs with calorie-rich diets (1). Although much of the global attention to diabetes has focused on resource-rich settings and emerging markets, the diabetes ep- idemic has also been expanding in resource-constrained settings such as sub-Saharan Africa (2). Estimates from the International Diabetes Federation suggest that the preva- lence of diabetes is expected to in- crease by 98% in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030, in contrast to an expected 54% increase in the rest of the world (3). Furthermore, there is an alarm- ingly high mortality rate attributable to diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa compared with all other parts of the world, with 76.4% of diabetes-related deaths occurring in people <60 years of age (4). Despite these disturbing trends, there has been little effort to address this growing burden. Currently, most funding for international health care development focuses on communi- cable diseases, especially HIV and tuberculosis (5). However, the infra- structure that has been established to manage chronic infectious dis- eases such as HIV can be adapted to address many other chronic diseases, including diabetes (6–8). | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | American diabetes association | en_US |
dc.subject | Diabetes | en_US |
dc.subject | Sedentary lifestyles | en_US |
dc.title | Dynamics impact, and feasibility of self-monitoring of blood glucose in the rural resource-constrained setting of Western Kenya | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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