Aarhus Diabetes Demography Symposium and Meeting 2025
1 Welcome!
1.1 Date and time
🗓 13 June 2025
🕰️ 09:30 - 16:30
1.2 Location
Eduard Biermann Auditorium (Building 1252, Room 204)
Bartholins Allé 3
8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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1.3 Background
As diabetes prevalence increases globally, there is an increasing need to have up to date insights into the key numbers that define the direction of our public health policies and setup of clinical attention.
Demographic analyses based on routinely registered data with population-wide coverage have provided an excellent way of obtaining these important insights. However, even among countries with well-developed register systems there are differences that make it difficult to generate direct comparisons.
Furthermore, as new specific areas of attention develop and new data sources become available, coordination and joint development of methods and expertise is necessary. This 1-day symposium and meeting aims to explore some of these themes by presenting the experiences of some of the global experts in the field. The expectation is that the discussions that emerge from the symposium and meeting will serve to define a roadmap for standardization, development of methods, education and joint research in the field.
1.3.1 The target audience
Researchers (including PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) working with register-based and epidemiological studies of diabetes, its causes and consequences at the population level.
1.4 Programme
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | 10:00 | Coffee | - |
| 10:00 | 10:05 | Welcome and Introduction | Tinne Laurberg |
| 10:05 | 10:35 | Estimating diabetes prevalence for the world- The IDF Diabetes Atlas Approach | Dianna Magliano |
| 10:35 | 11:05 | New Problems to Solve in the Era of Registry-Driven Diabetes Epidemiology | Edward Gregg |
| 11:05 | 11:10 | Very short break | - |
| 11:10 | 11:20 | Examining the Early Impact of the Chronic Disease Management Program on the Incidence of Emergency Hospitalizations Among People with Type 2 Diabetes: Research Design and Preliminary Results | Kevin McIntyre |
| 11:20 | 11:30 | Setting the optimal screening interval for diabetic retinopathy using an individualised approach | Sasja Maria Pedersen |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Linking clinical practice and diabetes epidemiology – the Scottish experience | Sarah Wild |
| 12:00 | 13:00 | Lunch | - |
| 13:00 | 13:20 | Diabetes in Norway – trends, challenges and possibilities | Hanne Løvdal Gulseth |
| 13:20 | 13:30 | The DD2 Cohort: From Register Prediction to Precision Diagnostics of Type 2 diabetes | Jens Steen Nielsen |
| 13:30 | 13:40 | When to start, how to classify, and whom to include: A methodological review of the clone-censor-weight approach evaluating the effect of timing of glucose-lowering treatment initiation | Sia Nicolaisen |
| 13:40 | 13:50 | The Role of Type 2 Diabetes in Shaping Multimorbidity Progression: Evidence from the UK Biobank Cohort | Jie Zhang |
| 13:50 | 14:00 | How registries on diabetes medications can help guide us to the future | Zheer Kejlberg Al-Mashhadi |
| 14:00 | 14:05 | Very short break | - |
| 14:05 | 14:20 | Population-wide diabetes risk prediction: Plans for the DP-Next study | Daniel Witte |
| 14:20 | 14:35 | Methodological challenges of risk prediction for population screening | Henrik Støvring |
| 14:35 | 15:00 | Coffee | - |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Implication of a diabetes register on demographic measures and models | Bendix Carstensen |
| 15:30 | 16:15 | Discussion: What is the roadmap for future collaboration on this work? | All |
| 16:15 | Final words and end of seminar |
1.5 Invited Speakers
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Prof. Sarah Wild | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Prof. Dianna Magliano | Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia (and visiting professor in Denmark in 2025) |
| Dr. Hanne Løvdal Gulseth | Norwegian Institute of Public Health / Oslo University Hospital |
| Prof. Edward Gregg | Imperial College London, UK and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland |
| Mr. Bendix Carstensen | Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen |
| Prof. Henrik Støvring | Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus |
| Prof. Daniel Witte | Aarhus University / Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus |
1.6 Short Presentations
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Dr. Kevin McIntyre | RCSI School of Population Health, Ireland |
| Mrs. Sasja Maria Pedersen | Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen |
| Dr. Jens Steen Nielsen | University of Southern Denmark |
| Dr. Sia Nicolaisen | Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital |
| Dr. Jie Zhang | Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus |
| Dr. Zheer Kejlberg Al-Mashhadi | Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus |
1.7 The Aarhus Diabetes Demography Seminar and Meeting is kindly supported by:
