dc.contributor.author | Mahmoud, Jalal Ibrahim | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-20T10:32:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-04-20T10:32:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-06-27 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://repository.limu.edu.ly/handle/123456789/713 | |
dc.description | Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly known as diabetes, is a group of metabolic
diseases characterized by chronic hyperglycemia due to problems with insulin secretion,
insulin action or both [1,2]. Globally, diabetes has been on the rise, and affects not just highincome
countries, but has also spread and markedly increased among middle-income
countries, which has claimed 1.5 million deaths [3]. In the Philippines, 4.6% of the general
population have DM according to the 2003–2004 National Nutrition and Health Survey [4].
The increase in DM prevalence in the country through the years may be attributed to multiple
factors, which include but are not limited to sedentary lifestyle, variety of food consumption,
and even climate change .Effects of climate change, particularly how temperature affects
human health, have been thoroughly studied with relatively similar patterns of increased risk
in elderly and among patients with cardiovascular diseases in different cities and countries
across the globe | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Diabetes is well-known as one of the many chronic diseases that affect different
age groups. Currently, most studies that evaluated the effects of temperature on diabetes
mortality focused on temperate and subtropical settings, but no study has been conducted to
assess the relationship in a tropical setting. We conducted the first multi-city study carried out
in tropical cities, which evaluated the temperature–diabetes relationship. We collected daily
diabetes mortality of four Philippine cities from 2006 to 2011. Same period meteorological
data were obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. We used a
generalized additive model coupled with a distributed lag non-linear model (DLNM) in
determining the relative risks. Results showed that both low and high temperatures pose
greater risks among diabetics. Likewise, the study was able to observe the: (1) high risk
brought about by low temperature, aside from the largely observed high risks by high
temperature; and (2) protective effects in low temperature percentile. These results provide
significant policy implications with strategies related to diabetes risk groups in relation to
health service and care strategies | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | faculty of Basic Medical Science - Libyan International Medical University | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.title | Effect of temperature in diabetes patient | en_US |
dc.type | Other | en_US |