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ReviewThe lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology2017

The global diabetes epidemic: what does it mean for infectious diseases in tropical countries?

Reinout van Crevel, Steven van de Vijver, David A J Moore

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Review in The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

89 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 157 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Yield and Efficiency of a Population-Based Mass Tuberculosis Screening Intervention Among Persons With Diabetes in Jiangsu Province, China.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023
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  6. The double burden of diabetes and global infection in low and middle-income countries.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2019
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  20. Disruption of immune responses by type 1 diabetes exacerbates SARS-CoV-2 mediated lung injury.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Reinout van CrevelDepartment of Internal Medicine and Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Electronic address: reinout.vancrevel@radboudumc.nl.
Steven van de VijverDepartment of Global Health, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
David A J MooreDepartment of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development · NLLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine · GBRadboud University Medical Center · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tropical countries are experiencing a substantial rise in type 2 diabetes, which is often undiagnosed or poorly controlled. Since diabetes is a risk factor for many infectious diseases, this increase probably adds to the large infectious disease burden in tropical countries. We reviewed the literature to investigate the interface between diabetes and infections in tropical countries, including the WHO-defined neglected tropical diseases. Although solid data are sparse, patients with diabetes living in tropical countries most likely face increased risks of common and health-care-associated infections, as well as infected foot ulcers, which often lead to amputation. There is strong evidence that diabetes increases the severity of some endemic infections such as tuberculosis, melioidosis, and dengue virus infection. Some HIV and antiparasitic drugs might induce diabetes, whereas helminth infections appear to afford some protection against future diabetes. But there are no or very scarce data for most tropical infections and for possible biological mechanisms underlying associations with diabetes. The rise in diabetes and other non-communicable diseases puts a heavy toll on health systems in tropical countries. On the other hand, complications common to both diabetes and some tropical infections might provide an opportunity for shared services-for example, for eye health (trachoma and onchocerciasis), ulcer care (leprosy), or renal support (schistosomiasis). More research about the interaction of diabetes and infections in tropical countries is needed, and the infectious disease burden in these countries is another reason to step up global efforts to improve prevention and care for diabetes.

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EpidemicsCommunicable DiseasesDiabetes ComplicationsDiabetes MellitusHumansTropical Climate

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PMID27499355
PMCPMC7104099
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