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Review
. 2016 Mar 26:9:133-6.
doi: 10.2147/JMDH.S88684. eCollection 2016.

Conceptualizing type 2 diabetes and its management

Peter Tsasis  1 , Jianhong Wu  2 , Aijun An  3 , Hannah J Wong  1 , Xiandong An  4 , Zhen Mei  5 , Ted Hains  5
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Conceptualizing type 2 diabetes and its management

Peter Tsasis et al. J Multidiscip Healthc. .

Abstract

Type 2 diabetes is growing worldwide due to population growth, increased rates of obesity, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity. Risk assessment methods can effectively evaluate the risk of diabetes, and a healthy lifestyle can significantly reduce risk or prevent complications of type 2 diabetes. However, risk assessment alone has not significantly improved poor adherence to recommended medical interventions and lifestyle changes. This paper focuses on the challenge of nonadherence and posits that improving adherence requires tailoring interventions that explicitly consider the social determinants of health.

Keywords: data mining and cluster analysis; nonadherence; tailored interventions; type 2 diabetes.

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