The Clinical and Public Health Challenges of Diabetes Prevention: A Search for Sustainable Solutions

Nicholas J Wareham ()

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Abstract: The economic cost of dealing with the consequences of diabetes is not only a threat to health systems but is a far broader economic and social problem and thus a threat to future long-term sustainable development. Research aimed at diabetes prevention is therefore the focus of this special issue of PLOS Medicine.

Keywords: type 2 diabetes (T2D); specific populations; economic development; developed countries; cost-effective; high-risk individual; investment; country; hyperglycemia; health care systems; epidemic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-08
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