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Prevalence of Glycosuria and Diabetes Mellitus

1962; BMJ; Volume: 1; Issue: 5291 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.1.5291.1503

0959-8138

John H. Harkness,

Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

In 1946 Wilkerson and Krall (1947) carried out the first community diabetes survey.They tested 70.60% of the population of 4,983 in Oxford, Massachusetts, and found 40 known cases of diabetes and 30 new cases.The total incidence was 1.4%,'.In Newmarket, Ontario, Kenny et al. (1951) tested 810% of the population over 6 years of age and found the incidence of diabetes to be 1.2%.They found 54 cases of diabetes, of which 21 were new cases.Since then mass screening surveys have been carried out in the United States and Canada, and in 109 surveys over Im. people have been tested.The incidence of diabetes in these surveys has varied between 1 and 1.5% (Joslin et al., 1959).In this country Redhead (1960) tested a sample of a general practice in Newcastle; 1,991 people were tested and he found 19 cases of diabetes, of which 10 were first discovered in his survey.More recently, in Ibstock, Walker and Kerridge (1961) tested 810%' of the popula- says that the highest point or peak of the curve is