The number of people living with diabetes is increasing worldwide. People with diabetes are at a higher risk for getting other health complications like cardiovascular disease, kidney and thyroid diseases, cancer, and mental health disorders.
These complications also often share the same risk factors as diabetes, such as obesity, smoking, sedentary lifestyle, hypertension, and dyslipidemia.
We want to understand how diabetes contributes to these complications/conditions (and vice versa) so that we can use that information in trying to find potential treatments with drugs or other interventions. For instance, if diabetes impacts a certain disease because of genes, this might be a good place to consider how drugs might help. Or if we find that a specific lifestyle behaviour or feature in the environment, an intervention might be a better approach to use. The project is going to last at least three years.
