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Risk prediction models for the development of diabetes in Mauritian Indians.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association - 1 Oct 2009
Gao W G, Qiao Q, Pitkäniemi J, Wild S, Magliano D, Shaw J, Söderberg S, Zimmet P, Chitson P, Knowlessur S, Alberti G, Tuomilehto J
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AIMS: To develop risk prediction models of future diabetes in Mauritian Indians. METHODS: Three thousand and ninety-four Mauritian Indians (1141 men, aged 20-65 years) without diabetes in 1987 or 1992 were followed up to 1992 or 1998. Subjects underwent repeated oral glucose tolerance tests and diabetes was diagnosed according to 2006 World Health Organization/International Diabetes Federation criteria. Cox...
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