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Call for more research on diabetes vaccine
Staff Reporter
CHENNAI: There needs to be more research on vaccines to prevent diabetes, said Dr. M.G.R. Medical University Vice-Chancellor K. Meer Mustafa Hussain here on Sunday. He was speaking at the launch of a manual of guidelines on primary prevention of diabetes and educational material, at a function organised by M.V. Hospital for Diabetes and Diabetes Research Centre, Royapuram.
The Vice-Chancellor, who was honoured with the lifetime achievement award, said the university had initiated research on vaccines but research was abandoned later for want of funds. Currently post-graduates students at the Institute of Child Health were working on the various aspects of obesity including diabetes.
Responsible Officer of WHO Diabetes Programme in Geneva, Gojka Roglic, who delivered the Prof. M. Viswanathan gold medal oration, said recent studies by researchers in India had revealed that diabetes was likely to be responsible for 15 per cent of all new tuberculosis cases in India. Only three to four per cent of it could be due to AIDS. Quoting intensive studies conducted across the world, she said, lifestyle intervention worked as well as or better than drugs.
In several countries the studies included monitoring the test population for several years.
She called for education of policy-makers, regulations to discourage consumption of unhealthy food and changes in agricultural policy and pricing that could help increase availability of healthy food.
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