Low health literacy is associated with higher risk of type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study in Germany

• Main Authors: Daniel Tajdar (Author), Dagmar Lühmann (Author), Regina Fertmann (Author), Tim Steinberg (Author), Hendrik van den Bussche (Author), Martin Scherer (Author), Ingmar Schäfer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Low health literacy is believed to be associated with behaviours that increase the risk of type 2 diabetes. But there is limited knowledge on the relation between health literacy (HL) and diabetes risk, and whether improving HL could be a potential prevention strategy. Therefore,...