US veterans administration diabetes risk (VADR) national cohort: cohort profile.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The veterans administration diabetes risk (VADR) cohort facilitates studies on temporal and geographic patterns of pre-diabetes and diabetes, as well as targeted studies of their predictors. The cohort provides an infrastructure for examination of novel individual and community-level risk factors for diabetes and their consequences among veterans. This cohort also establishes a baseline against which to assess the impact of national or regional strategies to prevent diabetes in veterans.

Participants

The VADR cohort includes all 6 082 018 veterans in the USA enrolled in the veteran administration (VA) for primary care who were diabetes-free as of 1 January 2008 and who had at least two diabetes-free visits to a VA primary care service at least 30 days apart within an

SUBMITTER: Avramovic S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7722386 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature