Obesity and Undiagnosed Diabetes in the U.S

• Published in: Diabetes care Vol. 31; no. 9; pp. 1813 - 1815
• Main Authors: Wee, Christina C, Hamel, Mary Beth, Huang, Annong, Davis, Roger B, Mittleman, Murray A, McCarthy, Ellen P
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Diabetes Association 01.09.2008
• Subjects: Adult; Age of Onset; Analysis; Body Mass Index; Child; Dextrose; Diabetes; Diabetes Mellitus - epidemiology; Diabetes therapy; Disease control; Epidemiology/Health Services Research; Female; Glucose; Health Surveys; Humans; Interviews as Topic; Kidney diseases; Male; Obesity; Obesity - complications; Obesity - epidemiology; Obesity - mortality; Preventive medicine; Racial Groups - statistics & numerical data; Risk Factors; Sample size; Studies; Surveys; United States - epidemiology; United States; United States > US

OBJECTIVE:--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. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS--We performed an analysis of 5,514 adult participants in the 1999-2004 National Health and...