Diagnostic criteria for diabetes revisited: making use of combined criteria

Diagnostic criteria for diabetes revisited: making use of combined criteria

BACKGROUND: Existing cut-offs for fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and post-load glucose (2hPG) criteria are not equivalent in the diagnosis of diabetes and glucose intolerance. Adjusting cut-offs of single measurements have not helped so we undertook this project to see if they could be complementary. METHODS: We performed oral glucose tolerance tests and mean levels of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) meas...

Diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes: who decides?

Diagnostic criteria for use in psychiatric research.

" Gen Psychiat/Vol 26, Jan 1972 Diagnostic Criteria for Psychiatric Research/Feighner et a1 5 7 .Diagnostic criteria for 14 psychiatric illnesses (and for secondary deprnssion) along wi th the validating r,*idpnce for these diagnostic cate,/,,ries comes from workers outside ,,ti,. group as weU as from those within; i t consists of studies o f both outpatients and inpatients, o f family studies,...

Comparison of diagnostic criteria for Atopic dermatitis in epidemiological studies

Atopic dermatitis is one of the commonest childhood diseases. Large variations in the prevalence of the disease have been observed in different studies. This variation in the prevalence may be not only from genetic and environmental factors but also from methodology of estimating prevalence of the disease. In this study, Hanifin and UKWP criteria have been used in determining prevalence of the ...

Diagnostic Criteria for Autism

Brain disorders, including developmental, psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases affect millions of individuals worldwide. In addition to the human suffering they cause, brain disorders also carry significant economic costs in terms of lost earnings, direct health care costs and disability benefits. For example, autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) represent an enormous disease burde...