Cohort profile: The MULTI sTUdy Diabetes rEsearch (MULTITUDE) consortium.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Globally, the age-standardised prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has nearly doubled from 1980 to 2014, rising from 4.7% to 8.5% with an estimated 422 million adults living with the chronic disease. The MULTI sTUdy Diabetes rEsearch (MULTITUDE) consortium was recently established to harmonise data from 17 independent cohort studies and clinical trials and to facilitate a better understanding of the determinants, risk factors and outcomes associated with T2DM.

Participants

Participants range in age from 3 to 88 years at baseline, including both individuals with and without T2DM. MULTITUDE is an individual-level pooled database of demographics, comorbidities, relevant medications, clinical laboratory values, cardiac health measures, and T2DM-associated event

SUBMITTER: Pino EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5942412 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature