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ArticleJournal of diabetes science and technology2014

Tele-diabetology to Screen for Diabetes and Associated Complications in Rural India: The Chunampet Rural Diabetes Prevention Project Model.

Viswanathan Mohan, Vijayaraghavan Prathiba, Rajendra Pradeepa

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Article in Journal of diabetes science and technology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Viswanathan MohanMadras Diabetes Research Foundation and Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialties Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Non-communicable Diseases Prevention & Control, IDF Centre for Education, Gopalapuram, Chennai, India drmohans@diabetes.ind.in.
Vijayaraghavan PrathibaMadras Diabetes Research Foundation and Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialties Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Non-communicable Diseases Prevention & Control, IDF Centre for Education, Gopalapuram, Chennai, India.
Rajendra PradeepaMadras Diabetes Research Foundation and Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialties Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Non-communicable Diseases Prevention & Control, IDF Centre for Education, Gopalapuram, Chennai, India.
Madras Diabetes Research Foundation · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetes, with its acute and long-term complications, has become a major health hazard in developing countries. An estimated 62.4 million people in India have diabetes. With increasing urbanization and industrialization, we can expect huge numbers of people with diabetes in India in the future. Moreover, all diabetes efforts in India are currently focused in urban areas while 70% of India's population actually lives in rural areas. The current statistics demonstrates that urgent interventions are mandatory to curb the epidemic of diabetes and its complications at the grassroots level. This gap in providing diabetes care can be nullified by the use of tele-diabetology. This holds great potential to overcome barriers and improve quality and access to diabetes care to remote, underserved areas of developing counties. The Chunampet Rural Diabetes Prevention Project (CRDPP) has been developed and tested as a successful model for screening and delivering diabetes care to rural areas in developing countries. Using a tele-diabetology mobile van loaded with appropriate equipment, trained technicians, and satellite technology helped us to screen for diabetes and its complications and deliver diabetes care to remote villages in southern India. The Chunampet model can be applied in reaching out to remote areas where specialized diabetes care facilities may not be available.

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complicationsCRDPPdiabetesscreeningtele-diabetologytelemedicine

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