Application of the new ADA criteria for the diagnosis of diabetes to population studies in sub-Saharan Africa
| Autor: | Debbie Bradshaw, Ayesha A. Motala, Naomi S. Levitt, Jean Claude Mbanya, Mahomed A.K. Omar, Gina Joubert, H Machibya, Gabriel Masuki, H. M. Kitange, Nigel Unwin, W F Mollentze |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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American diabetes association
medicine.medical_specialty Glucose tolerance test education.field_of_study medicine.diagnostic_test biology business.industry Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Population medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Impaired glucose tolerance Endocrinology Cohen's kappa Tanzania Diabetes mellitus Epidemiology Internal Medicine medicine business education Demography |
| Zdroj: | Diabetic Medicine. 17:381-385 |
| ISSN: | 1464-5491 0742-3071 |
| DOI: | 10.1046/j.1464-5491.2000.00264.x |
| Popis: | Summary Aims To examine the implications for epidemiological studies of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommendation that the fasting blood glucose at a lowered level becomes the main diagnostic test for diabetes on cross-sectional-based data from sub-Saharan Africa. Methods Data from 11 surveys conducted in rural, peri-urban and urban Cameroon (n = 1804), South Africa (n = 3799) and Tanzania (n = 10013) which measured fasting (ADA criteria) and 2-h blood glucose concentrations during a standard 75 g OGTT (old WHO criteria) were analysed. Results The prevalence of diabetes was higher in eight of the 11 surveys when applying the new ADA compared to the old WHO criteria. With the exception of one population (Mara, Tanzania) the absolute difference in prevalence between the two classifications tended to be small ( |
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