PURPOSE We undertook this study to examine the symptoms, clinical events, and types of
health care encounters that preceded the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus in adults, and to …

BACKGROUND: Opportunistic disease screening is the routine, asymptomatic disease
screening of patients at the time of a physician encounter for other reasons. While the …

OBJECTIVE—To determine whether case subjects who were later diagnosed with type 2
diabetes utilized primary care differently from control subjects who remained free from …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate access and utilization of medical care, and health status and
outcomes that would be influenced by recent medical care, in a representative sample of …

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Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common diagnoses made by family physicians.
Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to blindness, limb amputation, kidney failure, and vascular …

Background: The increasing prevalence of diabetes is a major health problem. The
detection and treatment of prediabetes can delay the onset of diabetes and presents an …

Diabetes is a prevalent condition in the US and worldwide, with expanding impact over time
as it affects progressively younger ages as well as older ages as people live longer. Costs of …

The diagnosis and management of diabetes in primary care has increased immensely over
the past several years. The focus of this article is on the latest substantive revisions in the …

Accurate surveillance of diabetes is crucial for establishing relevant policies of diabetes
prevention and control. Previous studies estimated the trends in diabetes among adults in …