World Diabetes Day is marked annually on the 14th November
The organization DiABETES UK gives a very simple explanation of the nature and types of diabetes mellitus on their website, as part of the current campaign to raise awareness and reduce stigma: https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about-diabetes
Here at LSHTM, researchers have long been interested in diabetes, from many angles and points of view, and in LAORS we have assembled a collection of books and pamphlets from our collection for a reading room display.
There are some useful free e-books in the Fast Facts series (published by Karger), such as Fast Facts : Diabetes Mellitus / N. Scobie, K. Kamaras, 2014 https://discover.lshtm.ac.uk/permalink/44HYG_INST/1m9295r/alma991000993776303736
And; Fast Facts, Diabetes type 1 in adults / R.Zaidi, P. Weston, J. Brake, 2021
https://discover.lshtm.ac.uk/permalink/44HYG_INST/1g4gmr9/alma991000993881303736
*Please note that full text access to these is via IP address: you may need to use the Horizon Remote Desktop software if accessing from outside of LSHTM.
One of the major public health concerns of recent years is the development of type 2 diabetes in adults, due to the intake of processed foods with high sugar content. One of our display item is Identifying risk of type 2 diabetes. Epidemiologic perspectives from biomarkers to lifestyle / Margareta Norberg, a 2006 dissertation published in the Umeå University Medical Dissertations series ( we have a number of these which were sent to us by deposit as print copies ; more recent dissertations may be found on their website (https://www.umu.se/en/department-of-community-medicine-and-rehabilitation/sports-medicine/research-projects/dissertations/)
In the display, I have tried to include a mixture of grey literature, published works, and reports, from various eras and locations, which I hope will be of interest
