AIM To estimate the prevalence of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes mellitus (DM) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) in 15 year old and over in urban Indonesia and their association with risk factors such as age, smoking, physical inactivity, obesity, hypertension. METHODS A national sample involving 24,417 participants living in urban Indonesia aged > 15 years were examined for 2 hours of...

AIM This study assessed the baseline type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) risk status among overweight patients with screen-detected colorectal adenomas and explored the implications of the findings for preventative practice. METHOD Participants aged between 50 and 74 years (73% of whom were men) were recruited from four Scottish health boards and assessed for diabetes risk. Participants were cat...

Diabetes is a serious public health problem and is widely recognized as one of the major health emergencies of the latest years [1,2]. Global diabetes prevalance is projected to rise from 415 million in 2015 to 642 million in 2040. In other words, the risk of diabetes will rise markedly, from one in 11 adults in 2015, to one in 10 adults by 2040. It is estimated by the International Diabetes Fe...

OBJECTIVE To determine the age- and sex-specific prevalence of impaired fasting glycemia, impaired glucose tolerance, screen-detected diabetes, and known diabetes in a Danish population aged 30-60 years and to examine the phenotype and the cardiovascular risk profile in individuals with impaired glucose regulation. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In the Inter99 study, 13,016 inhabitants living in...

Diabetes, an ever-increasing nationwide epidemic, affects > 29 million Americans, with 21 million people diagnosed and another 8.1 million undiagnosed.1 Of the 12.3% of the adult population with diabetes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that one in four is unaware that they are living with diabetes.2 Increasing obesity rates have greatly contributed to the increas...

Skin disorders are common in diabetic patients and may also act as clues for diagnosis in undiagnosed cases. These manifestations may be summarized in five categories including non-infectious, infectious, treatment-related and miscellaneous manifestations as well as diabetic foot ulcer. The most common non-infectious disorder occurring in up to 70% of patients is diabetic dermopathy. Infectio...