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ReviewCurrent diabetes reports2026

Climate Change and Diabetes Outcomes: Evidence from Climate-Vulnerable Regions.

Lakshmi Natarajan, Anjana Ranjit Mohan, Hamad Ali, Gary Adamkiewicz, Pradeepa Rajendra, Fahd Al-Mulla, Viswanathan Mohan, Barrak Alahmad

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Lakshmi NatarajanEnvironmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. lakshmiapril19@gmail.com.
Anjana Ranjit MohanDepartment of Diabetology, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (ICMR- Collaborating Centre of Excellence) and Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre (IDF Centre of Excellence in Diabetes Care), Chennai, India.
Hamad AliDepartment of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Health Sciences Center (HSC), Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait.
Gary AdamkiewiczEnvironmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Pradeepa RajendraDepartment of Research Operations and Diabetes Complications, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (ICMR- Collaborating Centre of Excellence), No 4, Conran Smith Road, Gopalapuram, Chennai, 600 086, India.
Fahd Al-MullaDepartment of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Health Sciences Center (HSC), Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait.
Viswanathan MohanDepartment of Diabetology, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (ICMR- Collaborating Centre of Excellence) and Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre (IDF Centre of Excellence in Diabetes Care), Chennai, India.
Barrak AlahmadEnvironmental Health Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

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Abstract

purpose of reviewClimate change is progressively recognized as an emerging determinant of metabolic health outcomes, particularly in relation to diabetes mellitus. This review summarizes mechanistic and epidemiological evidence linking climate-related exposures to diabetes outcomes: namely, 1) heat stress, 2) air pollution, and 3) extreme weather-related disruption of diabetes care. RECENT

findingsWarming temperatures, worsening air quality, and more frequent extreme weather events are intensifying exposures that disproportionately affect populations with pre-existing chronic diseases; patients with diabetes may be at the center of climate-related vulnerability. While the greatest burden of diabetes is shouldered by countries in the Global South, these same regions are also at the front lines of climate change, facing extreme environmental conditions. Together, diabetes and climate change can converge to create compounding pressures on already strained public health systems in the world's most climate-vulnerable regions. Using global case studies from climate-vulnerable settings, we show the pathways through which diabetes outcomes and climate change can be connected highlighting the need for climate-informed diabetes prevention and management.

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Climate ChangeDiabetes MellitusAir PollutionHeat Stress DisordersHumansAir pollutionClimate changeDiabetes mellitusHeat stress

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