Diabetes: a Caribbean concern

ABSTRACT

We have asked many doctors in the Caribbean which clinical conditions cause them the most concern. The three topics that have probably been mentioned most often are cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and asthma. Readers have asked us to carry more information on the management of these illnesses. Hypertension and asthma have already been the subject of special supplements in Caribbean Health. Now, in this issue of the journal we are pleased to be publishing a similar supplement devoted to diabetes (AU)