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Title: | Dynamics impact, and feasibility of self-monitoring of blood glucose in the rural resource-constrained setting of Western Kenya |
Authors: | Pastakia, Sonak D. Cheng, Stephanie Y Kirui, Nicholas K. Kamano, Jemima H. |
Keywords: | Diabetes Sedentary lifestyles |
Issue Date: | 7-Dec-2015 |
Publisher: | American diabetes association |
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). |
URI: | http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/7817 |
Appears in Collections: | School of Medicine |
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