Cascades of diabetes and hypertension care in Samoa: Identifying gaps in the diagnosis, treatment, and control continuum - a cross-sectional study.

Background: Samoa is a Pacific Island country facing one of the highest burdens of non-communicable disease globally.

Methods: In this study, we apply a cascade-of-care approach to understand gaps in the awareness, treatment, and control cascade of diabetes and hypertension in a cross-sectional, convenience sample of 703 young, high-risk Samoan adults (29.5-50.

Improving services for chronic non-communicable diseases in Samoa: an implementation research study using the care cascade framework.

Objective: Samoa needs to intensify the response to the growing non-communicable disease burden. This study aimed to assess bottlenecks in the care continuum and identify possible solutions.

Methods: The mixed-methods study used the cascade framework as an analysis tool and hypertension as a tracer condition for chronic non-communicable diseases.

Dietary Patterns Are Associated with Metabolic Outcomes among Adult Samoans in a Cross-Sectional Study.

The Samoan population has been undergoing a nutrition transition toward more imported and processed foods and a more sedentary lifestyle. We aimed to identify dietary patterns in Samoa and to evaluate their associations with metabolic outcomes. The sample of this cross-sectional study includes 2774 Samoan adults recruited in 2010 (1104 with metabolic syndrome compared with 1670 without).