Diabetes, hypertension, sanitation, and health education by high school students in Guyana, South America
| Autor: | Thakor G. Patel, R Soni, Alysa E. Doyle, Rahul M. Jindal, Kathan Mehta |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics hypertension Sanitation Population education 030232 urology & nephrology Overweight lcsh:RC870-923 Health data 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Diabetes mellitus medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Entire population education.field_of_study business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Diabetes medicine.disease lcsh:Diseases of the genitourinary system. Urology Nephrology Family medicine rural village Health education Original Article Guyana medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Indian Journal of Nephrology, Vol 26, Iss 3, Pp 192-198 (2016) Indian Journal of Nephrology |
| ISSN: | 1998-3662 0971-4065 |
| Popis: | We initiated a program for early detection of diabetes and hypertension, the main causes of kidney failure in Guyana, South America. We trained local high school students with the goal that these students would stay in the villages for long-term, become health advocates and shift the reliance away from physicians. This project involved 7 high school students who were taught to monitor the health of one village of 1000–1500 population each. The program will be implemented for 3 years in which the entire population of seven villages (approximately 10,000 people) will be covered. This represents 1.3% population in Guyana. We present data from the pilot study from the sample of 619 people. The prevalence of diabetes mellitus was 13.9%. Among diabetics, 33.7% were using insulin and 86% oral hypoglycemic agents. Prevalence of hypertension was 29.4%, 63.2% were overweight and 17% were obese. About 9.9% patients were unaware about the existence of hypertension. We have shown in our study that high school students can be used to collect health data and monitor diabetes and hypertension. There was also a significant incidence of undetected diabetes and hypertension. |
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