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Preventing and managing cardiometabolic diseases

Although essentially preventable, cardiometabolic diseases are becoming increasingly common. We want to break this pattern by supporting new ways of understanding, preventing, diagnosing, and treating these diseases – including precision medicine approaches – and ensure solutions are cost-effective, equitable, and patient-centred. 

Our goals are to:

  • Strengthen understanding of cardiometabolic disease mechanisms 
  • Promote, develop, and facilitate data access and use 
  • Ensure equitable prevention and disease management solutions 
  • Improve understanding of the impact of prevention and disease management 

Projects and initiatives we have supported

Preventing and managing cardiometabolic diseases

Microbiome Health Initiative

Do bacteria in our gut play a role in cardiometabolic disease?

REACT

Preventing cardiovascular disease through early detection

Lighthouse Consortium on Obesity Management (LightCOM)

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease

With a USD 47.5 million commitment over a five-year period, the Foundation has supported the establishment of a new centre for genomic research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Boston (US).

Centre for Childhood Health

In 2020, the Novo Nordisk Foundation awarded a grant towards the establishment of a new entity in the Foundation, with the main task of developing a new centre focusing on healthy weight for children.

Strengthened effort targeted diabetes and other lifestyle-related diseases in Greenland

A new ambitious initiative aims to ensure that people with diabetes and other lifestyle-related diseases can be offered research-based treatment and prevention of the highest quality, regardless of where they live in Greenland.

Health nurses’ prevention of obesity from infancy

The initiatives seek to support and guide new parents in matters of early risk factors for child obesity and mental health problems. 

Strategic partnership to fight noncommunicable diseases in Tanzania

The project seeks to improve access to treatment, as well as enhance disease prevention and health education, of non-communicable diseases in Tanzania.