Impact of the atmospheric composition and climate changes on the evolution of diabetes in Central Italy: the Vitality project

In the framework of the Next Generation EU program, the Vitality project was founded to 
develop different research activities related to the sustainability and environmental protection. 
One of them, called One health: Telemedicine and Environment coordinated by the University 
‘G. d’Annunzio’, Italy, is focused on the impacts of climate changes and pollutant changes, on 
the evolution of some human health diseases. Here we report the infrastructure development to 
study how temperature and other meteorological parameters, air pollutant, such us ozone, 
nitrogen oxides, PM10, impact the evolution of diabetes. One of the main activities is putting 
together the last five years of meteorological and composition data and those of hospital 
admissions and clinical analyses of more that 13,000 patients. Another activity is to study the 
real life of diabetes patients monitoring continuously their physiological parameters, 
atmospheric parameters of the region where they live and indoor air quality of their houses. 
First results of the project, strengths and weakness will be discussed.