Abstract Categories

The World Diabetes Congress welcomes original abstracts on subjects relevant to the following five streams:

  • Clinical and Basic Science
  • Diabetes in Indigenous Peoples
  • Education and Integrated Care
  • Living with Diabetes
  • Public Health and Epidemiology

Authors must select one category from the list below that best describes the content of their abstract. This category will be used for reviewing and indexing purposes. They must then select the most appropriate of the five abstract streams.    

  • Access to drugs and technologies
  • Age, gender, ethnicity and culture
  • Animal models of type 1 diabetes
  • Animal models of type 2 diabetes
  • Bariatric surgery and type 2 diabetes
  • Blood pressure
  • Care delivery, care providers, coordinators and supporters
  • CNS/Hypothalamic regulation of obesity and diabetes
  • Cognition, psychology and behaviour
  • Comorbidities
  • Comorbidities - fatty liver
  • Comorbidities - non-alcoholic
  • Comorbidities - sleep disturbances
  • Comorbidities and emerging risk factors
  • Complications
  • Complications - biomechanical mechanisms
  • Complications - cardiovascular disease
  • Complications - eye
  • Complications - foot
  • Complications - kidney
  • Complications - nerve
  • Complimentary medicine
  • Defining diabetes
  • Diabetes advocacy 
  • Diabetes and cancer
  • Diabetes and gender dynamics
  • Diabetes and infections
  • Diabetes and the brain
  • Diabetes associations
  • Diabetes education across the ages
  • Diabetes education and technology
  • Diabetes education delivery
  • Diabetes in childhood and adolescence
  • Diabetes in Indigenous groups
  • Diabetes in rural areas
  • Diabetes in the elderly, in-patients and other special groups
  • Diabetes incidence and prevalence
  • Diabetes management 
  • Diagnosis and classification
  • Disasters and diabetes
  • Discrimination and diabetes
  • Environment and lifestyles
  • Epigenetics and early foetal development
  • Ethics, quality, standard and practice in diabetes
  • Food security
  • Genetics of type 1 diabetes
  • Genetics of type 2 diabetes
  • Glucagon physiology and pathophysiology
  • Glycated haemoglobin and its role in diabetes
  • Guidelines, clinical care
  • Health professional education and development
  • Health services research
  • Health workforce
  • Healthcare financing
  • Hypoglycaemia
  • IDF curriculum-based health professional programs and others
  • In utero environment and perinatal programming
  • Incretin physiology and pathophysiology
  • Incretin therapies
  • Indigenous communities and ethnicity issues
  • Inflammation
  • Insulin action - glucose transport, receptor, signal transduction, cellular mechanisms
  • Insulin action - physiology, carbohydrate, lipid and protein metabolism
  • Insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome
  • Insulin secretion, dysfunction, and the islet beta cell (in vivo)
  • Insulin therapy and devices
  • Islets - beta cell death and survival
  • Islets - beta cell gene regulation
  • Islets - beta cell growth and regeneration
  • Islets - developmental biology and stem cells
  • Islets - insulin secretion, dysfunction (in vitro)
  • Islets - other islet cells/hormones (IAPP, glucagon, somatostatin, etc...)                        
  • Lipids and lipoproteins
  • Living with diabetes
  • Microbial flora
  • Models of care, multi-disciplinary care and family-centred care
  • Monitoring of diabetes control
  • Monogenic forms of diabetes
  • Nutrition and diet
  • Obesity - physiology and pathophysiology of weight regulation
  • Obesity - prevention and management
  • Oral glucose-lowering therapies
  • Patient engagement and self-management - adult
  • Patient engagement and self-management - youth
  • Peer education
  • Phenotypes vs. genotypes
  • Physical activity
  • Pregnancy and gestational diabetes
  • Primary and secondary prevention
  • Psychosocial/behavioural interventions
  • Quality assurance in diabetes care
  • Rights and responsibilities of people with diabetes
  • Risk factors for developing diabetes
  • Screening and risk stratification
  • Secondary diabetes
  • Sedentary behaviour
  • Social and cultural determinants of health
  • Stem cell therapy
  • Telecommunication, internet and social media
  • Traditional healing/therapies
  • Transplantation - islet and pancreas
  • Type 2 diabetes in children