Guidelines for the detection of diabetes mellitus--diagnostic criteria and rationale for screening.
Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: Diabetes mellitus is a heterogenous condition reflecting different metabolic disorders and accompanied by a variety of complications. However, it is hyperglycaemia that is the common feature and this is used to define diabetes. Diabetes was previously considered a disease of minor significance to world health. However, there has been an explosive increase in the number of people diagnosed with diabetes worldwide in the last few decades.1 The global figure of people with diabetes is set to rise from the current figure of about 180 million in 2000 to 220 million in 2010 and 320 million in 2025. The two major forms of diabetes are:
♦ type 1 diabetes, which is predominantly due to autoimmune mediated destruction of pancreatic β-cells and results in absolute insulin deficiency.
♦ type 2 diabetes, characterised by insulin resistance and/or relatively insufficient insulin secretion. Worldwide over 90% of patients with diabetes have type 2 diabetes. In Australia, the frequency of diabetes is 7.4% of the adult population of which only 50% are diagnosed.2
Source: PubMed
Authors: Hans Schneider, Jonathan Shaw, Paul Zimmet
Institutions: The Alfred Hospital, Alfred Health
Language: English
Subfield: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W126803624