Researchers Find Mentoring Provides Health Benefits for African American Veterans with Diabetes
Monday, March 19, 2012 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
Intervention by peer mentors has a statistically significant effect on improving glucose control in African American veterans with diabetes, according to a study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP). Full results of the study were published in the March 20th issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.