Screening for type 2 diabetes: do screen-detected cases fare better?

ABSTRACT:

Aims/hypothesis

We aimed to investigate whether diabetes cases detected through screening have better health outcomes than clinically detected cases in a population-based cohort of adults who were eligible to be screened for diabetes at 10 year intervals.

Methods

The Västerbotten Intervention Programme is a community- and individual-based public health programme in Västerbotten County, Sweden. Residents are invited to clinical examinations that include screening for diabetes by OGTTs at age 30, 40, 50 and 60 years (individuals eligible for screening, n = 142,037). Between 1992 and 2013, we identified 1024 screen-detected cases and 8642 clinically detected cases of diabetes using registry data. Clinically detected individuals were either prior screening participants (n = 4506

SUBMITTER: Feldman AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6086324 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature