World Diabetes Distress Study

The World Diabetes Distress Studies project aims to study the complex interplays between lifestyle, psychological factors and biological parameters (such as glycemic and blood pressure variabilities, pulse wave velocity) that are key in the daily management of type 1 or type 2 diabetes and the development of diabetes-related complications.

To do so, comprehensive observational studies are implemented to combine patients’ ​digitosomes​, an emerging concept gathering all the data generated online by an individual (ie. data from social media such as Twitter), with clinical and epidemiological data. New patterns of key parameters will be identified, and both their determinants and their associations with diabetes distress studied, quality of life and diabetes-related complications.