The prevalence of diabetes in a Swedish population of 280,411 inhabitants: A report from the skaraborg diabetes registry

Diabetes Care

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 546-548

  Berger, Bo ^a,e   Stenström, Gunnar ^b   Chang, Yue Fang ^d   Sundkvist, Göran ^c  

^a CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Department of Medicine

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e KSS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; REGISTER; RETINOPATHY; SCREENING; SWEDEN;

BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; SWEDEN;

EID: 0031896493     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.21.4.546     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Andersson DKG, Svärdsudd K, Tibblin G: Prevalence and incidence of diabetes in a Swedish community 1972-1987. Diabet Med 8:428-434, 1991
2. Falkenberg MGK: Diabetes mellitus: prevalence and local risk factors in a primary health care district. Scand J Soc Med 15:139-144, 1987
3. Sartor G: Prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Sweden. Acta Endocrinol 262 (Suppl.): 27-29, 1984
4. Bitzén P-O: On the Early Detection and Treatment of Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus in Primary Health Care. Dissertation. Lund, Sweden, University of Lund, 1988
5. Forrest RD: Diabetes mellitus in North Sweden: prevalence assessed from prescriptions for anti-diabetic drugs. J Intern Med 228:267-273, 1990
6. Tuomi T, Groop L, Zimmet P, Rowley M, Knowles W, Mackay I: Antibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase reveal latent autoimmune diabetes mellitus in adults with a non-insulin-dependent onset of disease. Diabetes 42:359-362, 1993
7. Arnqvist HJ, Littorin B, Nyström L, Scherstén B, Östman J, Blohmé G, Lithner F, Wibell L: Difficulties classifying diabetes at presentation in young adults. Diabet Med 10:606-613, 1993
8. Pellmer K for Skaraborgsinstitutet, sektionen för allmänmedicin och länsstyrelsen Skaraborg: Pusslet om Skaraborgarnas hälsa och levnadsförhållanden: resultat från Skaraborgsenkäten 1992. Mariestad, Sweden, Länsstyrelsen Skaraborg, 1994
9. Spek JE, Himmelman L for Västsvenska planeringsnämnden: Västsvensk dödsorsaksanalys. Göteborg, Sweden, Göteborgs länstryckeri, 1994
10. World Health Organization: Diabetes Mellitus: Report of a WHO Study Group. Geneva, World Health Org., 1985 (Tech. Rep. Ser., no. 727)
11. Wittes J, Sidel V: A generalisation of the simple capture-recapture model with applications to epidemiological research. J Chronic Dis 20:287-301, 1968
12. LaPorte RE, McCarty D, Bruno G, Naoko T, Shigeaki B: Counting diabetes in the next millennium: application of capture-recapture technology Diabetes Care 16:528-534, 1993
13. Littorin B, Sundkvist G, Scherstén B, Nyström L, Arnqvist H, Blohmé G, Lithner F, Wibell L, Östman J: Patient administrative system as a tool to validate the ascertainment in the Diabetes Incidence Study in Sweden (DISS). Diabetes Res Clin Pract 33:129-133, 1996
14. Nyström L, Dahlquist G, Rewers M, Wall S: The Swedish Childhood Diabetes Study: an analysis of the temporal variation in diabetes incidence 1978-1987. Int J Epidemiol 19:141-146, 1990
15. King H, Rewers M, for the World Health Organization Diabetes Reporting Group: Global estimates for prevalence of diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance in adults. Diabetes Care 16:157-177, 1993
16. Bruno G, LaPorte R, Merletti F, Biggeri A, McCarty D, Pagano G: National diabetes programs: application of capture-recapture to count diabetes? Diabetes Care 17:548-556, 1994
17. Di Cianni G, Benzi L, Giannarelli R, Orsini P, Villani G, Ciccarone A, Cecchetti P, Fedele O, Navalesi R: A prevalence study of known diabetes mellitus in Tuscany assessed from pharmaceutical prescriptions and other independent sources. Acta Diabetol 31:87-90, 1994
18. D'Allesandro A, Damato A, De Pergola G, Lollini G, Giorgino R: Combining three different sources as a valid tool to identify known diabetic patients: use in a prevalence study in an Italian local health unit. Diabete Metab 20:265-270, 1994
19. Garancini MP, Sergi A, Lazzari P, Gallus G: Epidemiology of known diabetes in Lombardy, north Italy: clinical characteristics and methodological aspects. Acta Diabetol 32:268-272, 1995
20. Warram JH, Kopczynski J, Janka HU, Krolewski AS: Epidemiology of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and its macrovascular complications. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am 26:165-188, 1997
21. Papoz L, and the EURODIAB Subarea C Study Group: Utilization of drug sales data for epidemiology of chronic diseases: the example of diabetes. Epidemiology 4:421-427, 1993
22. Tan M-H, MacLean DR: Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus in Canada. Clin Invest Med 18:240-246, 1995
23. Vilbergsson S, Sigurdsson G, Sigvaldson H, Hreidarsson ÁB, Sigfusson N: Prevalence and incidence of NIDDM in Iceland: evidence for stable incidence among males and females 1967-1991: The Reykjavik Study. Diabet Med 14:491-498, 1997
24. Mølbak A, Christau B, Marner B, Borch-Johnsen K, Nerup J: Incidence of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in age groups over 30 years in Denmark. Diabet Med 11:650-655, 1994