[A method of estimation for prevalence of diabetes mellitus from fructosamine levels].
A method for estimating the prevalence interval of diabetes mellitus from fructosamine data is presented, which is based on the previously reported method for estimating prevalence from results of screening tests and on the results of 75 gram glucose tolerance test and fructosamine test in 1,359 examinees. Where true prevalences are 1-20% and population size is 100-10,000, the estimates for prevalence of diabetes mellitus are generally minimum when a screening level of 310 mumol/l of fructosamine is utilized. In our method, a screening level for fructosamine of 310 mumol/l was specified. Standard error ratios of estimated prevalence of diabetes mellitus to true prevalence in a population with an actual prevalence of 10% were about 40% for a population of 200 persons, and about 20% for 2,000 persons or more.
Hashimoto
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S
Department of Demography and Health Statistics, Arikawa Public Health Center.
Nagai
M
M
Sakata
K
K
Yanagawa
H
H
Sueta
H
H
Tanaka
T
T
Shirahama
S
S
D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D019270:Fructosamine; D006595:Hexosamines / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence
D006595:Hexosamines; D019270:Fructosamine