ReviewCurrent diabetes reports2018
Type 1 Diabetes in a Resource-Poor Setting: Malnutrition Related, Malnutrition Modified, or Just Diabetes?
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- The Incidence of Adult-Onset Type 1 Diabetes: A Systematic Review From 32 Countries and Regions.Diabetes care · 2022Pooled it
- Type-5 diabetes mellitus: a call for clinical recognition and research prioritization.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Article
- Diabetic Kidney Disease: Evidence from Two Selected Cohorts of Patients from Low-Middle and High Income Countries.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Undernutrition-Associated Diabetes Mellitus: Pathophysiology of a Global Problem.Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Review
- Phenotypic and Genetic Diversity in Diabetes Across Populations.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2025Review
- Distinct complication profiles: a comparative study of Ethiopian and non-Ethiopian adults with type 1 diabetes.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Editorial: Diabetes in Africa in the 21st century: the unique and important challenge of diabetes in Africa, volume II.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The phenotype of type 1 diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa.Frontiers in public health · 2023Review
- Type 1 diabetes mellitus in the context of high levels of rural deprivation: differences in demographic and anthropometric characteristics between urban and rural cases in NW Ethiopia.Frontiers in clinical diabetes and healthcare · 2023Article
- Association of Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte Antigen-4 Gene Polymorphism with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: In silico Analysis of Biological Features of CTLA-4 Protein on Ethiopian Population.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2022Article
- The Current Situation Regarding Long-Acting Insulin Analogues Including Biosimilars Among African, Asian, European, and South American Countries; Findings and Implications for the Future.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Hyperglycemic Crisis Characteristics and Outcome of Care in Adult Patients without and with a History of Diabetes in Tigrai, Ethiopia: Comparative Study.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2021Article
- Type 1 diabetes in Africa: an immunogenetic study in the Amhara of North-West Ethiopia.Diabetologia · 2020Article
- Urban-Rural Differences in the Trends of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Among Adults Who Received Medical Treatment from Public Hospitals in Resource-Poor Community Tigray, Ethiopia.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2020Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewVery little is known about the occurrence of type 1 diabetes (T1DM) in resource-poor countries and particularly in their rural hinterlands. RECENT
findingsStudies of the epidemiology of T1DM in Ethiopia and similar countries in sub-Saharan Africa show that the pattern of presenting disease differs substantially from that in the West. Typically, the peak age of onset of the disease is more than a decade later with a male excess and a low prevalence of indicators of islet-cell autoimmunity. It is also associated with markers of undernutrition. These findings raise the question as to whether the principal form of T1DM seen in these resource-poor communities has a different pathogenesis. Whether the disease is a direct result of malnutrition or whether malnutrition may modify the expression of islet-cell autoimmunity is unclear. However, the poor prognosis in these settings underlines the urgent need for detailed clinical and epidemiological studies.
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