"Estimating Prevalence of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in a Population of African-Americans With Diabetes Mellitus."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in American Journal of Epidemiology, "The pathogenesis, treatment, and outcomes of type 1 and type 2 diabetes differ. Current surveys derive population-based estimates of diabetes prevalence by type using limited clinical information and applying classification rules developed in white populations. How well these rules perform when deriving similar estimates in African-American populations is unknown. For this study, data were collected on a group of African-Americans with diabetes who enrolled at the Diabetes Unit of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, from April 16, 1991, to November 1, 1996. The data were used to...

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