TY - JOUR T1 - Diabetes in Africa: the situation in the Seychelles JF - Heart JO - Heart SP - 506 LP - 507 VL - 95 IS - 6 AU - P Bovet AU - A Gabriel AU - C Shamlaye AU - F Paccaud Y1 - 2009/03/15 UR - http://heart.bmj.com/content/95/6/506.2.abstract N2 - To the editor: Professor Levitt recently reviewed the epidemiology, management and healthcare challenges related to diabetes in Africa,1 but did not include data from the Seychelles. We would like to add some information from the Republic of Seychelles, an island state located 1800 km east of Kenya, where the majority of the population are of African descent.Based on two independent surveys of the population aged 25–64 years in 1989 … ER -