Community health workers help type 2 diabetes care

(Brown University) Researchers who conducted a clinical trial in American Samoa to test whether community health workers could help adults with type 2 diabetes found that the patients who received the intervention were twice as likely to make a clinically meaningful improvement as those who remained with care only in the clinic. The results appear in the journal Diabetes Care.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news