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Annals of Family Medicine 4:15-22 (2006)
© 2006 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.
doi: 10.1370/afm.419

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Diabetes: How Are We Diagnosing and Initially Managing It?

Patrick J. O’Connor, MD, MPH1, Edward Gregg, PhD2, William A. Rush, PhD1, Linda M. Cherney, RD, MPH1, Michael N. Stiffman, MD, MSPH1 and Michael M. Engelgau, MD, MPH2

1 HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minn
2 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga


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Figure 1. Algorithm for identifying incident cases of diabetes using automated database and medical record review.

 

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Figure 2. Percentage of patients (n = 504) who had the following tests at the time of diabetes diagnosis.

HbA1c = glycated hemoglobin.

 

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Figure 3. Proportion of newly diagnosed patients who reached then-recommended levels of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, or aspirin use.

 





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