The levels and trends of diabetes prevalence at national and sub-national levels in Iran (1990 - 2016).

ABSTRACT:

Background

The increasing trends in Diabetes prevalence and its attributed burden emphasized as an important issue that needs serious and urgent attention, all over the word. We estimated the mean Fasting Plasma Glucose (FPG) and the prevalence of Diabetes in aged 25 years or older Iranian adults, by sex, age, province, and year through the time period of 1990 to 2016.

Methods

In order to access the most comprehensive relevant data at the same time the systematic data searched added to the data of 5 national surveys and 7 sub-national population based investigations. Two round of modeling, including the Age-Spatio-Temporal and Gaussian Process Regression were used for estimation of mean FPG trend and uncertainties. To estimate Diabetes estimations in target groups, a crosswa

SUBMITTER: Peykari N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10225396 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature