Obesity and Diabetes

New obesity and diabetes research reported from C.C. Wee and co-authors

Published in Physician Law Weekly, October 15th, 2008

In this recently published study, investigators in the United States conducted a study "To study whether obese individuals, who are at higher risk for diabetes and disparities in care than nonobese individuals, are more likely to have undiagnosed diabetes. We performed an analysis of 5,514 adult participants in the 1999-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey."

"Particpants were inter-viewed about sociodemographic and medical data, including whether they had been diagnosed with diabetes, and were examined for height, weight, and fasting plasma glucose level >= 126 mg/dl or by previous physician diagnosis. After categorizing participants into normal...

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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2008-10-15)

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