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Diabetes Epidemiology

Automated database used to determine epidemiology of diabetes in Israeli HMO

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, January 26th, 2004

A large automated database was used to determine the epidemiology of diabetes in an Israeli health maintenance organization (HMO).

"Diabetes is one of the most prevalent noncommunicable disease globally and it is one of the leading cause for death in most developed countries. The current population-based study aim was to describe to the epidemiology of diabetes in Israel by using our HMO's automated medical databases. All diabetic patients appearing in the diabetes registry among 1.6 million insured members in the second largest HMO in Israel were selected for epidemiological analysis," investigators in Israel report.

"We identified 39,768 diabetic...

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