Diabetes experts' reasoning about diabetes prevention studies: a questionnaire survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Presentation of results of diabetes prevention studies as relative risk reductions and the use of diagnostic categories instead of metabolic parameters leads to overestimation of effects on diabetes risk. This survey examines to what extent overestimation of diabetes prevention is related to overestimation of prevention of late complications.

Methods

Participants of two postgraduate courses in clinical diabetology in Austria (n = 69) and Germany (n = 31) were presented a questionnaire with 8 items at the beginning of the meetings. All 100 questionnaires were returned with 92 filled in completely. Participants were asked 1) to rate the importance of differently framed results of prevention studies and, for comparison, of the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Stud

SUBMITTER: Muhlhauser I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2588450 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature