The National Diabetes Prevention Programme: a pathway for prevention and wellbeing

The National Diabetes Prevention Programme.

Notwithstanding the human and financial implications of diabetes, we are concerned with the selective use of evidence to support the National Diabetes Prevention Programme. The editorial by Sood et al describes trials, which offered expensive, intensive interventions to participants selected on strict and extensive criteria with stringent methods to maintain participant engagement.1,2 Trials de...

The Canonical Wnt Signaling (Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway): A Potential Target for Cancer Prevention and Therapy

Precise regulation of signal transduction pathways is crucial for normal animal development and for maintaining cellular and tissue homeostasis in adults. The Wnt/Frizzled-mediated signaling includes canonical and non-canonical signal transduction pathways. Upregulation or downregulation of the canonical Wnt-signaling (or the Wnt/β-Catenin signal transduction) leads to a variety of human diseas...

Rh prevention: a report and analysis of a national programme.

A nation-wide Rh prevention programme was started in Finland in 1969. Before that, a control series of approximately 1000 Rh-negative mothers giving birth to an Rh-positive child was collected to estimate the number ofmothers with antibodies at either three, six, or nine months post partum. During the threeand-a-half year period altogether 14,980 Rh-negative patients were given 250 ,tg of anti-...

India needs a national COPD prevention and control programme.

The Effect of Training Diabetes Prevention Behaviors on Promotion of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Students for Prevention of Diabetes in Mashhad City

Introduction: Diabetes is a complex metabolic disease that not only inheritance, but also lifestyle and knowledge of individuals about the disease have an important role in the prevalence of it. The current study was carried out with purpose of determining the effect of training on doing diabetes prevention behaviors among students in Mashhad. Methods: In this semi- empirical study, 102 student...