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Academic

Professor Kamlesh Khunti

Director of the NIHR ARC East Midlands and the Real World Evidence Unit and Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine at the University of Leicester

Press citations

2

Topic

1

Diabetes

Last quoted

Sept 2026

Professor Kamlesh Khunti: key facts

Kind of voice
Academic
Role
Director of the NIHR ARC East Midlands and the Real World Evidence Unit and Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine at the University of Leicester
Quoted on
Diabetes
Press citations held
2
Most recently quoted
10 Sept 2026

“These findings highlight an urgent need for integrated, patient-centred care and strategies to overcome therapeutic inertia, where current treatments continue despite the need for change.”

What Professor Kamlesh Khunti has said

  • “Our findings reveal a striking age-related difference in how prediabetes progresses. Older adults diagnosed with prediabetes face a higher risk of death or of developing type 2 diabetes or cancer, while younger individuals have a greater chance of remaining in a stable prediabetes state.”

    Director of the NIHR ARC East Midlands and the Real World Evidence Unit, Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine at the University of Leicester · Diabetes · 10 Sept 2026 · Age at prediabetes diagnosis a key factor for risk of type 2 diabetes and cancer, study indicates ↗

Where Professor Kamlesh Khunti has been quoted

  1. Global study reveals major gaps in diabetes care targetsdiabetestimes.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
  2. Age at prediabetes diagnosis a key factor for risk of type 2 diabetes and cancer, study indicatesdiabetestimes.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026

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