All Outputs (5)

Effectiveness of Community Health Worker-led Diabetes Self-Management Education on Type 2 diabetes patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Amagyei, A., Meal, A., Shaw, I., & Adams, G. G. (2020). Effectiveness of Community Health Worker-led Diabetes Self-Management Education on Type 2 diabetes patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. International Journal of Diabetes, 1(2), 40-50

Objective: Community Health Workers are important in building individual and community capacity through outreach, community education, informal counselling, social support and advocacy programs, which enhance health knowledge and self-sufficiency. Ou... Read More about Effectiveness of Community Health Worker-led Diabetes Self-Management Education on Type 2 diabetes patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Is Liraglutide a Safe and Effective Medication to Treat Hyperglycaemia?: A Systematic Review (2020)
Journal Article
Al Oneze, A., Jiwan, S. I., Gyasi-Antw, P., Meal, A., & Adams, G. G. (2020). Is Liraglutide a Safe and Effective Medication to Treat Hyperglycaemia?: A Systematic Review. Annals of Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology, 3(2),

Background: The aim of this systematic review is to examine the effectiveness of Liraglutide on glycemic control and Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) in patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) mellitus and to investigate whether Liraglutide leads to any Gas... Read More about Is Liraglutide a Safe and Effective Medication to Treat Hyperglycaemia?: A Systematic Review.

Exploration of temperature and shelf-life dependency of the therapeutically available Insulin Detemir (2020)
Journal Article
Beji, O., Gillis, R. B., Dinu, V., Jiwani, S. I., Gyasi-Antwi, P., Fisk, I. D., …Adams, G. G. (2020). Exploration of temperature and shelf-life dependency of the therapeutically available Insulin Detemir. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 152, 340-347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpb.2020.05.016

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Purpose: Insulin, in typical use, undergoes multiple changes in temperature; from refrigerator, to room temperature, to body temperature. Although long-term storage temperature has been well-studied, the short term changes to ins... Read More about Exploration of temperature and shelf-life dependency of the therapeutically available Insulin Detemir.

Relationship between Lipohypertrophy, Injection Techniques and Education in adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review (2019)
Journal Article
Thomas, J., Meal, A., & Adams, G. G. (2019). Relationship between Lipohypertrophy, Injection Techniques and Education in adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review. Journal of Diabetes and Treatment, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.29011/2574-7568.001074

Introduction: This systematic review examines Lipohypertrophy (LH) in patients presenting with Type 1/2 Diabetes (T1/2DM) in relation to education and injection techniques. LH is a condition, which occurs in diabetes individuals at injection sights.... Read More about Relationship between Lipohypertrophy, Injection Techniques and Education in adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review.

Hypoglycaemic unawareness: A systematic review of qualitative studies of significant others' (SO) supportive interventions for patients with diabetes mellitus (2018)
Journal Article
Hartill, E., Gillis, R., Imran Jiwani, S., Recchia, N., Meal, A., & Adams, G. (2018). Hypoglycaemic unawareness: A systematic review of qualitative studies of significant others' (SO) supportive interventions for patients with diabetes mellitus. Heliyon, 4(10), Article e00887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00887

Background Hypoglycemia unawareness (HU) has been attributed to both a downward shift in central nervous system (CNS)-triggered sympatho-adrenal responses to low glycaemic thresholds and a subsequent loss of adrenergic symptoms, which, in addition... Read More about Hypoglycaemic unawareness: A systematic review of qualitative studies of significant others' (SO) supportive interventions for patients with diabetes mellitus.