PMID: 11928585Apr 4, 2002Paper

Prevalence of type II diabetes mellitus in population of Krakow

Polskie Archiwum Medycyny Wewnętrznej
M SzurkowskaW Jedrychowski

Abstract

The study was carried out within a framework of the Polish Multicenter Study on Diabetes Epidemiology in 1998-2000. The aim of the study was to define the prevalence of type 2 diabetes, especially unknown diabetes, and prevalence of impaired glucose tolerance in a demographically well-defined urban population using the comparable epidemiological methods which were applied in the previous study in Wrocław in 1985-1986. The study was carried out in 200,000 subjects inhabiting the town quarter. Out of those who were 35 or more 6000 subjects were randomised using a table of random numbers. All randomized subjects received a letter of invitation explaining the sense of study, its objectives and methods. If necessary the invitations were renewed, and then the subjects were contacted by phone. Each responding person received a questionnaire to complete. Then anthropometric and blood pressure measurements were taken. Blood was sampled for plasma glucose, insulin, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and triglycerides in the fasting state. Those who declared being non-diabetic and in whom screening test using a glucometer (Glucotrend) revealed fasting glycemia below 8 mmol/l underwent an oral glucose tolerance test (75 g) to determine gly...Continue Reading

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