Type 1 diabetes

Improving health outcomes of people with diabetes: target setting for the WHO Global Diabetes Compact

LancetPublished Target-setting report

Methodological detailsWHO Global Diabetes Compact
  • WHO Global Diabetes Compact

Recommendations

As issued by the authors

  1. Of all people with diabetes, at least 80% clinically diagnosed

  2. Of people with diagnosed diabetes, 80% have HbA1c below 8.0% (63.9 mmol/mol)

  3. Of people with diagnosed diabetes, 80% have blood pressure lower than 140/90 mm Hg

  4. Of people with diagnosed diabetes, at least 60% of those aged 40 years or older receiving statin therapy

  5. Each person with T1D has continuous access to insulin, blood glucose meters and test strips

  6. Complementary metrics warranting scale-up in surveillance: cause-specific mortality, incidence of end-stage kidney disease, lower-extremity amputations and incidence of diabetes

Original publication

Improving health outcomes of people with diabetes: target setting for the WHO Global Diabetes Compact. Lancet. Published 14 March 2023. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(23)00001-6

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