OBJECTIVE—The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalences of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes, and impaired fasting glucose (IFG) in U.S. adults during 1999–2002, and compare prevalences to those…
Epidemic of end-stage renal disease in people with diabetes in the United States population: Do we know the cause? Background The number of individuals initiating renal replacement therapy in…
Diabetes mellitus predisposes people to premature atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD). The risk of a myocardial infarction in diabetics without overt evidence of obstructive CAD matches that of patients without…
OBJECTIVE: To examine ethnic differences in risk of type 2 diabetes, taking dietary and lifestyle risk factors into account. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: A prospective (1980-2000) cohort (from The Nurses'…