Type 2 Diabetes: Culturally-tailored Education Can Improve Blood Sugar Control
Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 23:07
in Health & Medicine
Using community-based health advocates, delivering information within same-gender groups or adapting dietary and lifestyle advice to fit a particular community's likely diet can help people with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar levels, certainly for up to six months, following health education. This conclusion was reached by a team of Cochrane researchers after they considered the data in 11 trials that involved 1,603 people.