Air pollution and diabetes

Summary

1.5 million Australians – almost five per cent of the population – live with diabetes. While links with obesity and diet are well known, air pollution is also a significant modifiable risk factor. In 2021, nearly 10% of diabetes related deaths in Australia were attributed to air pollution. In this webinar researchers presented findings regarding the links between diabetes and air pollution, and what this tells us about how to reduce diabetes in Australia: Professor Joachim Heinrich, Head of Population Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; and Yiwen Zhang, PhD candidate and member of the Climate, Air Quality Research in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. The webinar and a live Q&A was facilitated by Dr Sabrina Idrose, Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Safe Air, Melbourne University. Access the YouTube recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX26t3YnWkg

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2024

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