Public health burden of pre-diabetes and diabetes in Luxembourg: finding from the 2013-2015 European Health Examination Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to determine the burden and risk factors of prediabetes and diabetes in the general adult population of Luxembourg.

Design

Cross-sectional survey between 2013 and 2015.

Setting

Data were collected as part of the European Health Examination Survey in Luxembourg (EHES-LUX).

Participants

1451 individuals were recruited in a random sample of the 25-64-year-old population of Luxembourg.

Outcomes

Diabetes was defined by a glycaemic biomarker (fasting plasma glucose (FPG) ≥7.0 mmol/L), self-reported medication and medical diagnosis; prediabetes by a glycaemic biomarker (FPG 5.6-6.9 mmol/L), no self-reported medication and no medical diagnosis. Undiagnosed diabetes was defined only from the glycaemic biomarker; the difference

SUBMITTER: Bocquet V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6347894 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature