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When you have diabetes, you are offered a consultation to ensure that you get the best treatment.
[Se mere]In 2024, we will move into brand new rooms!
[Se mere]Steno Diabetes Center Greenland gathers information about lifestyle diseases at www.steno.gl and will inspire to a healthier life.
[Se mere]Lifestyle health professionals throughout the country are taught annually by Steno Diabetes Center Greenland. In September Steno Diabetes Center Greenland held a course for healthcare professionals from Qaqortoq, Narsaq, Narsarsuaq and...
[Se mere]On Thursday 29 September, our doctor, Michael Lynge Pedersen, held a lecture on diabetes to mark his appointment as professor at the Department of Health and Nature at Ilisimatusarfik. Congratulations to Michael!
[Se mere]On Wednesday 28 September, Trine Jul Larsen defended her PhD. Trine's PhD was about diabetic eye diseases in Greenland. Congratulations on your PhD Trine! Trine is fortunately staying with us in Steno, as she is employed as a...
[Se mere]We have a YouTube channel where new videos will be posted on an ongoing basis. You can already watch instructional videos on how to take your inhalation medicine in the right way. Click here .
[Se mere]Thank you to all of you who participated. Many thanks to Pisiffik for healthy and delicious catering.
[Se mere]From 30/9 – 2/10, NUNAMED was held in Nuuk. NUNAMED is a conference held every three years on health and disease in Greenland. NUNAMED is for everyone who is interested in Greenlandic medical research. The majority of employees from Steno...
[Se mere]On the occasion of World Diabetes Day, Steno Diabetes Center invites you to a lifestyle event on the 14th of November in the community center between 3 and 6 PM. Here you can meet employees from Steno, hear more about our work and, not least,...
[Se mere]We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope that everyone gets into the New Year! Hope that your December will be filled with joy and delightful experiences. Many Christmas greetings from us from Inuunerisaavik Steno
[Se mere]You can borrow a blood pressure device and measure your blood pressure at home for three days. Blood pressure machines can be borrowed from the health care system. It is important to know your blood pressure, since high blood pressure is...
[Se mere]Would you like to learn a little more about what we do at Steno Diabetes Center Greenland? Watch here!
[Se mere]In occasion of this years Culture Night, Steno Diabetes Center Greenland welcomes you to an open event on January 21th between 5 pm and 7 pm at Dronning Ingrid's Sundhedscenter. Stop by! and meet our staff, learn more about lifestyle-related...
[Se mere]Until now, neither investigation nor treatment for sleep apnea has been possible in Greenland. This is one of the things we want to change with our project on sleep apnea in patients with type 2 diabetes. After expert training from the sleep...
[Se mere]Happy New Year! We're looking forward to 2023 where we will continue our work to make a difference for the citizens, their health and quality of life. The construction of the new Inuunerissaavik Steno Center continues as planned and we...
[Se mere]When you have diabetes, you are offered a consultation to make sure you get the best treatment. A good treatment of your diabetes reduces the risk of complications. Consultation with a talk about managing your diabetes and: Blood...
[Se mere]My name is Mia Solholt Godthaab Brath and I am in primary education for Pulmonary Medicine. Currently, I am on an exchange stay with Steno as part of my PhD. While I am at Steno, I will also be in their outpatient clinics at regular intervals and...
[Se mere]The clinicians at Steno Diabetes Center Greenland (SDCG) have been on a course in “Worth knowing about the treatment of Type 1 diabetes” with consultant Kirsten Nørgaard and nurse Karen Rytter from Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen. In the days...
[Se mere]In connection with the implementation of the telemedicine effort, our colleagues Anna and Dortheeraq have just been on a study visit to Ilulissat and Uummannaq, to find out how we can best support the successful implementation of the telemedicine...
[Se mere]In the autumn of 2022, Laila Motzfeldt, a graduate student at the University of Southern Denmark, completed a project at Steno Diabetes Center Greenland in Nuuk. In the project, people with type 2 diabetes or MODY have participated in a...
[Se mere]Ball games are good for oxygen uptake, blood pressure and bones – and so it reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. You can learn more about this in this first episode of Diabetes Researchers. Magni Mohr, who in addition to being a...
[Se mere]Sotagliflozin is a medicine for people with type 2 diabetes that improves blood sugar and blood pressure. The medicine also reduces the risk of worsening of heart vessels and kidney diseases. And now a new study suggests it may have the same...
[Se mere]People with diabetes are at risk of developing cardiovascular disease, but there is a big difference in how big the risk is. Researchers are working to become better at deciding which prevention is best for the individual, so that the amount of...
[Se mere]Sleep apnea is a disease that causes poor sleep, and people with severe sleep apnea are often exhausted. The disease can also cause high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation and blood clots in the brain and heart. There is effective treatment for...
[Se mere]This is the third season of Diabetes Researchers . You can now dive into the first four sections. Here you can learn more about: How football prevents type 2 diabetes in the Faroe Islands Medicine for cardiovascular and...
[Se mere]The video is in Greenlandic with Danish subtitles. Read more about gestational diabetes here .
[Se mere]In Steno Diabetes Center Greenland we are currently looking for a PhD student who will write a PhD on obesity epidemiology. Read more in the link below. Application deadline is Wednesday, April 26th! Read more !
[Se mere]Diabetic eye disease is a serious sequelae of diabetes, and if it is not detected and treated in time, it can lead to vision loss and blindness. Many people with diabetes are examined for diabetic eye disease, although they are not at high risk of...
[Se mere]Nearly every fifth resident in the care centers has diabetes, and some of them also live with obesity. It is important to provide a framework that allows healthy living so that diabetes does not worsen due to too little movement or too...
[Se mere]A frequent late complication of diabetes, which is however not so well-lit, is the risk of fractures. The reason for the increased risk of fractures has not yet been determined, but studies suggest that diabetic nerve damage, among other things,...
[Se mere]There are several ways to measure your blood sugar when you have type 1 diabetes. Most people know the finger dot measurement, but some find that it is difficult to control diabetes control when blood sugar is measured with the finger dot method....
[Se mere]New research will reveal why Greenlanders who cannot digest sugar have a lower risk of lifestyle diseases than other people. In Maniitsoq and Nuuk, almost 40 Greenlanders have participated to solve the riddle of why. Some people in Greenland...
[Se mere]Healthcare professionals in the lifestyle area throughout the country are taught every year by Steno Diabetes Center Greenland. In mid-April, Steno Diabetes Center Greenland held a 3-day course for healthcare professionals from all over the...
[Se mere]Our PhD student Hjalte and our two professors Marit Eika Jørgensen and Michael Lynge Pedersen have recently published a study on heart failure in Greenland. Briefly about the study Heart failure is a clinical syndrome that involves symptoms...
[Se mere]People with type 1 diabetes need to take insulin in precise amounts many times over the course of a day. This is difficult, and therefore it is now being investigated whether you can replace some of the insulin to be taken with a pill. Listen to...
[Se mere]People with diabetes and one or more other chronic diseases are often treated in several places. It can be frustrating because the treatment can become incoherent, and they may find themselves with much of the responsibility for the treatment...
[Se mere]It is important to promote a healthy lifestyle for children and adolescents, because the opposite can be related to the development of diseases such as type 2 diabetes in adulthood. But there is too little knowledge about how much difference it...
[Se mere]Diabetic foot ulcers are very serious. A wound can develop very quickly and end with amputation if left untreated. Many people with diabetic foot ulcers lack knowledge about how important it is to relieve the wound to promote healing of the wound,...
[Se mere]Ten years ago, it was investigated how widespread type 2 diabetes was in the Faroe Islands. The results of the study have since been used for information and training of doctors – just as new diabetes research in the Faroe Islands stands on the...
[Se mere]A healthy weight in the adolescent years can prevent diseases such as type 2 diabetes in adult life. But many attempts to halt the rise in obesity among children and adolescents from the most socially challenged families have failed. New project...
[Se mere]Puisa new app for video consultations The Greenlandic Health Service launches a new app that can be used for video consultations. In the future, it will be possible to have conversations with healthcare professionals from home. We all know...
[Se mere]Together with Stine Byberg, Marit Eika Jørgensen and Trine Jul Larsen, Danish Diabetes & Endocrine Academy (DDEA) has created a podcast about diabetes treatment in Greenland. Listen to the podcast here . The podcast is in English. How far do...
[Se mere]At the beginning of May, a course was held for people with type 1 diabetes in Ilulissat. There was a special focus on the exchange of experience, carbohydrate counting and insulin calculation. Seven people with type 1 diabetes gathered in...
[Se mere]On Tuesday, our podiatrist Bodil had his last day with us in Steno after 15 years as podiatrist in the Healthcare Service. Thank you so much for now, Bodil! We wish you the best of luck in the future!
[Se mere]A new study shows that the incidence of people diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is low in Greenland. Read more here. What is COPD? COPD is a chronic disease of the lungs in which the airways are narrowed and the...
[Se mere]In a study in Maniitsoq and Nuuk, our researchers investigated whether Greenlanders who cannot digest sugar eat differently than others in Greenland. Surprisingly, people with sugar intolerance generally ate the same amount of sugar as people who...
[Se mere]In connection with the implementation of the telemedicine efforts, our colleagues Dortheeraq and Trine have held a course for the rural health workers from Itilleq and Sarfannguit. It was a successful course in, among other things, the use of the...
[Se mere]Steno Diabetes Center Greenland wishes everyone a very happy summer. You can still book an appointment for a consultation. See how to do this on the link here .
[Se mere]The vast majority of citizens in Greenland use the healthcare system several times a year. New study conducted by doctor Sofia Botvid has together with researchers at Steno Diabetes Center Greenland and Queen Ingrid's Health Center in Nuuk...
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