Global Prevalence of Diabetes: Estimates for the Year 2000 and Projections for 2030: Response to Wild et al.

Wolfgang Rathmann; Guido Giani

doi:10.2337/diacare.27.10.2568

Letters: Comments and Responses

Global Prevalence of Diabetes: Estimates for the Year 2000 and Projections for 2030

Response to Wild et al.

Wolfgang Rathmann, MD, MSPH and
Guido Giani, PHD

From the Department of Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Research Institute, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Address correspondence to Dr. Wolfgang Rathmann, MD, MSPH, German Diabetes Research Institute, Auf’m Hennekamp 65, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. E-mail: rathmann{at}ddfi.uni-duesseldorf.de

Diabetes Care 2004 Oct; 27(10): 2568-2569. https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.27.10.2568

Response to Wild et al.

Global diabetes prevalence estimates for adults in 2000, which were derived from population-based data using oral glucose tolerance tests, were recently reported by Wild et al. (1). Because there are few OGTT-based data in the European region, estimates from a regional study carried out in the Netherlands were applied to 13 other countries, including Germany (2). For Germany, a prevalence of 4.1% was estimated, which corresponds to 2.6 …

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