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Prediabetes and cardiovascular complications study (PACCS): international collaboration 4 years’ summary and future direction
BMC Research Notes, Vol.10, pp.1-6
2017
PMID: 29228975
Abstract
Objective
The prediabetes and cardiovascular complications studies proposes to develop a screening protocol for diabetes cardiovascular risk, and strategies for holistic management amongst others. Over 500 participants were recruited in the first 2 years of rural community research screening. Specific for this report, various published findings were reviewed. The objective is to summarize research outcomes and itemize limitations as they constitute basis of future directions.
Results
Affordability and availability are major confounding behavioural change wheel factors in the rural community. 4.9% prevalence of prediabetes, which may be lower or non-significantly different in urban areas. Hyperglycaemia co-morbidity with dyslipidaemia (5.0%), obesity (3.1%) and hypertension (1.8%) were observed. Limitation of the study includes participants being mostly over 60 years old, which has created impetus for the Global Alliance on Chronic Diseases agenda on vulnerability of older adults to diabetes being a new direction of the collaboration. Other directions in Australia and Nepal focus on patients with chronic kidney disease with or without cardiovascular complications. This report highlights the need to translational research.
Details
- Title
- Prediabetes and cardiovascular complications study (PACCS): international collaboration 4 years’ summary and future direction
- Authors
- Ezekiel U. Nwose (Corresponding Author) - Charles Sturt UniversityR S Richards - Charles Sturt UniversityPhilip Taderera Bwititi - Charles Sturt UniversityE. O. Igumbor - Novena UniversityE. J. Oshionwu - Albury Wodonga HealthK. Okolie - Albury Wodonga HealthI. C. Onyia - Albury Wodonga HealthA. Pokhrel - Nepal Medical College Teaching HospitalP. Gyawali - Université de MontréalJ. N. Okuzor - Albury Wodonga HealthVictor Oguoma - Charles Darwin UniversityF. W. Gardiner - Calvary HospitalL. Wang - Charles Sturt University
- Publication details
- BMC Research Notes, Vol.10, pp.1-6
- Publisher
- BioMed Central Ltd.
- Date published
- 2017
- DOI
- 10.1186/s13104-017-3017-7
- ISSN
- 1756-0500
- PMID
- 29228975
- Copyright note
- This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Data Availability
- The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
- Organisation Unit
- Thompson Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991125405702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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