Diabetes prevalence and diagnostic tools Moving to an HbA1c based diagnosis of diabetes has a different impact on prevalence in different ethnic groups Running title: Diabetes prevalence and diagnostic tools
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Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Steno Diabetes Center A/S, Gentofte, Denmark Centre for Public Health Research, KEMRI, Nairobi, Kenya National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark Glostrup Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup, Denmark Madras Diabetes Research Foundation & Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre, Gopalapuram, Chennai, India Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK Semmelweis University Faculty of Medicine, 1 Department of Internal Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
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Moving to an A1C-Based Diagnosis of Diabetes Has a Different Impact on Prevalence in Different Ethnic Groups
OBJECTIVE To compare screen-detected diabetes prevalence and the degree of diagnostic agreement by ethnicity with the current oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)-based and newly proposed A1C-based diagnostic criteria. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Six studies (1999-2009) from Denmark, the U.K., Australia, Greenland, Kenya, and India were tested for the probability of an A1C > or =6.5% among diabet...
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