Nightingale Health and Imperial College London to investigate new indicators of diabetes in the South Asian population
In the largest project of its kind, researchers from Imperial College London aim to identify the underlying health factors that cause a high rate of diabetes and heart illnesses in South Asia. The scientists will be collaborating with Nightingale Health to analyse 45,000 blood samples from the region.Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is one of the leading causes of death in the world. South Asians have a three-times higher risk of being diabetic than North Americans and Europeans. So far, medical research on the subject has mostly focused on the western population. This makes the study a pioneering