Researchers of the Professorship of Public Health und Prevention, together with the German Alliance for Non-Communicable Diseases (DANK) and colleagues from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, have analyzed data on sugar reduction for soft drinks in Germany. The result: Sugar reduction…
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Dr. Jacob Burns and Prof. Michael Laxy traveled to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in January 2023, where they co-organized several sessions during the ARISE Network Adolescent Health Coordination Meeting and presented at the 4th Annual Symposium of translating research into practice for adolescent health…
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As part of the “Joint Programming Initiative on a Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life” (JPI HDHL), members of the Public Health & Prevention team at TUM and the Institute of Epidemiology at Helmholtz Zentrum München have published their research in a special issue of the European Journal of Public…
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Members of the TUM Public Health & Prevention team presented research on the prevention of type 2 diabetes at the 17th International Diabetes Epidemiology Symposium in Porto, Portugal and won prizes for the best poster and best mini-oral presentations.
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The Public Health & Prevention Team of TUM presented four papers on current research projects at this year's conference of the European Health Economics Association in Oslo (Norway).
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Prof. Michael Laxy is Topic Editor of the special issue “Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in the New Era: Epidemiology, Treatment, and Economics” in the Health Economics section of the journal Frontiers in Public Health
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The new publication analyzed the causal relationship between BMI, type 2 diabetes and socioeconomic outcomes using genetic instrumental variable methods. It is available here as an open access publication.
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