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Younger persons newly-diagnosed with type 2 diabetes  have significantly poorer health and thus a high risk of delayed complications compared with type 2 diabetes patients who first contract the disease twenty years later in life, says MSc in Public Health, PhD student, Anne Bo.
The healthcare system which is not designed appropriately for this group, says Helle Terkildsen Maindal, professor of health promotion at Aarhus University.

2017.12.12 | Research, Health and disease, Academic staff

Younger newly-diagnosed patients with type 2 diabetes are hit hard by the disease and an unprepared healthcare system

Risk factors for developing cardiovascular disease or eye and renal damage following type 2 diabetes are much more common among patients who are diagnosed before the age of 45 than in elderly newly-diagnosed patients. According to researchers behind a study from Aarhus University, this is a situation that the healthcare sector should take…

2017.12.12 | Administrative, Administration (Academic), Academic staff

VIDEO: Holiday greetings from Dean Lars Bo Nielsen

As 2017 comes to an end, Dean Lars Bo Nielsen uses his holiday greetings to look forward to the tasks that await us in the new year.

The deadline for what should be done with the 9,479 psychiatric brains in the basement of the Psychiatric Hospital has now been postponed. Model Photo: Lars Kruse/AU.

2017.12.14 | Research, Health and disease, Academic staff

Day of reckoning for the brains postponed

The Central Denmark Region is postponing the decision about what to do with the world's biggest collection of brains.

Every year 10 million people die due to hypertension worldwide. Over 85% of these deaths occur in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). In Nepal, about one in four adults have high blood pressure, and approximately half of them do not know they have it. Approximately five people die due to hypertension-related causes every hour and many of these deaths can easily be prevented.

2017.12.12 | Research, Public/Media, Health

Female Community Health Workers help to reduce blood pressure in Nepal

A PhD project from Center for Global Health at Department of Public Health at Aarhus University has demonstrated the effectiveness of female community health volunteers (FCHVs) in reducing blood pressure at the community level in Nepal.

Watch the video and get an impression of who the new department head at public health - Ole Bækgaard - is. Photo: AU/Roar Paaske.

2017.12.14 | People news, Administration (Academic), PhD students

VIDEO: Meet the new department head

On 1 January 2018, Ole Bækgaard Nielsen will begin as department head at the Department of Public Health. Hear him talk about his ambitions for the department, the type of manager that employees can expect to meet and which task he will begin with.

René Damkjer has agreed to help identify the seven most frequent 'cardinal sins' – we call them this because they can in practice give an application the kiss of death – though naturally with the addition of Innovation Fund Denmark's recommendations for what to do instead.

2017.12.12 | Research, Health and disease, Academic staff

Seven cardinal sins when applying to the Innovation Fund Denmark

Some researchers lack ambition and preparation, says the Innovation Fund Denmark’s regional employee René Damkjer. He recently met Health's Business Committee for some straight-talking about the most common misunderstandings – and the unknown InnoBooster and Talent Business Researcher programmes.

Strategic occupational health and safety efforts at Health are being strengthened and this will result in changes to the occupational health and safety organisation. Photo: Colourbox

2017.12.14 | Administrative, Administration (Academic), Academic staff

Changes to Health's occupational health and safety organisation

A new way of organising the occupational health and safety organisation at Health will see the department heads become the chairs of the local occupational health and safety committees

2017.12.11 | Conference, IDNC, Research

SASP ANNUAL MEETING 2018

Next years' annual meeting of the Scandinavian Association for the Study of Pain will take place in Tampere, Finland 18-20 April 2018.

2017.12.11 | Event, Academic staff, All AU units

Fireside chat

Learn about Novozymes and Grundfos' new Open Science platform HelloScience and hear researchers and entrepreneurs explain why they work within an open science field.

From the left: HRH Prince Joachim, Anders Stouge and the Chairman of the Board of the Danish Diabetes Association Truels Schuelz

2017.12.11 | Grants and awards, Research, Academic staff

Research student Anders Stouge has received a travel grant from the Danish Diabetes Association (Diabetesforeningen)

Research year student Anders Stouge has received a travel grant of DKK 10,000 for an exchange visit to the University of Utrecht and his participation in the NEURODIAB 2018: the 28th Annual Meeting of the Diabetic Neuropathy Study Group of the EASD. Link to the event  (in Danish)

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