Jobe, Modou http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5309-5611
Agbla, Schadrac C.
Todorcevic, Marijana
Darboe, Bakary
Danso, Ebrima
de Barros, Jean-Paul Pais
Lagrost, Laurent
Karpe, Fredrik http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-1770
Prentice, Andrew M. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5389-451X
Article History
Received: 9 September 2021
Revised: 6 July 2022
Accepted: 11 July 2022
First Online: 6 August 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was approved by the Joint Gambia Government/MRC Ethics Committee (SCC 1407). Clearance was obtained from community elders, ward councillors and household heads prior to approaching potential participants for their consent to take part in the study. Clearance was also obtained from the Chief Medical Director prior to recruitment of diabetic patients at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital. All study participants provided a signed or thumb-printed informed consent form.