Redefining Diabetes and Creating Solutions—The Hong Kong Diabetes Register: Kelly West Award Lecture 2025
Study context
- Population
- Chinese with diabetes in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Diabetes Register (HKDR), established 1995 with a biobank
Methodological detailsnarrative review of a diabetes register
- Narrative review of a diabetes register
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Asian diabetes phenotype: young age at diagnosis, moderately increased BMI, visceral fat excess, propensity for CKD
- 2-yearly Risk Assessment and Management Programme for Diabetes Mellitus (RAMP-DM) (HKDR protocol in territory-wide electronic medical record (EMR), 2000) contributed to marked decline in diabetes-related complication and death rates
- HKDR digitalized in 2007 as first web-based Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation (JADE) platform for risk stratification and personalized reporting with decision support
Original publication
Redefining Diabetes and Creating Solutions—The Hong Kong Diabetes Register: Kelly West Award Lecture 2025. Diabetes Care. Published 20 March 2026. doi:10.
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