Tackling diabetes: is ethnicity-specific messaging the way to go?

Half of Malays and 60 per cent of Indians over the age of 60 have diabetes, as compared to 25 per cent of Chinese in the same group. Does this mean that culturally specific programmes may be the key to tackling the disease? For certain groups of Singaporeans, such as the elderly, this may indeed be a useful approach to the topic, says Professor Tai E Shyong, senior consultant at the National University Hospital’s Endocrinology Division and Professor at SSHSPH. But in terms of prevention, Dean, Professor Chia Kee Seng, says thatRead more

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