Atlanta sources have stated that researchers at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health along with the Public Health Foundation of India, and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) found that a low-cost care, intervention model can help patients with diabetes double their likelihood of controlling the disease.
It is stated that from the trial also showed that the new intervention yielded sizeable improvements in the blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol profiles of participants. Benefits were similar in public and private diabetes clinics indicating that, with structured care, health inequalities can possibly be reduced.
Meanwhile Nikhil Tandon, Professor and Head, Department of Endocrinology, AIIMS has said that approximately 1,150 patients with diabetes and poor cardio metabolic profiles were randomly assigned to a multi-component QI strategy or usual care for two and a half years.
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