Article
Definition, diagnosis and classification of diabetes mellitus and its complications. Part 1: diagnosis and classification of diabetes mellitus provisional report of a WHO consultation.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association - 1 Jul 1998
Alberti K G, Zimmet P Z
Abstract excerpt
The classification of diabetes mellitus and the tests used for its diagnosis were brought into order by the National Diabetes Data Group of the USA and the second World Health Organization Expert Committee on Diabetes Mellitus in 1979 and 1980. Apart from minor modifications by WHO in 1985, littl...
Topics
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Blood Glucose
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Diabetes, Gestational
- Fasting
- Female
- Glucose Intolerance
- Glucose Tolerance Test
- Humans
- Insulin Resistance
- Islets of Langerhans
- Mutation
- Pregnancy
- Reference Values
- World Health Organization