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Springer, Diabetologia, 9(54), p. 2214-2216, 2011

DOI: 10.1007/s00125-011-2258-6

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How can we realise the potentially large public health benefit of screening for type 2 diabetes mellitus in south Asians?

Journal article published in 2011 by K. Stronks ORCID, I. G. M. van Valkengoed ORCID
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Abstract

undetected diabetes mellitus and other metabolic risk factors in various settings, the risk of morbidity associated with undetected disease, and targeted preventive interventions and their potential effectiveness in the south Asian groups as compared with the white population. The study by Webb et al. in this issue of Diabetologia [9], reports on the results of one of the few ongoing studies in Europe to address some of these different aspects [10–13]. This study is based on data from the UK-based Leicester arm of the Anglo–Danish–Dutch study of Intensive Treatment In peOple with screeN detected diabetes in primary care (ADDITION-Leicester) and focuses on white Europeans and on south Asians who were predominantly of Indian