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A Diabetes Survey: Report of a Working Party Appointed by the College of General Practitioners

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1962

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J. M. Malins, Michael P. Fitzgerald, R. Gaddie, K. W. Cross, Miss Wall, Alicia M. Allen, Amy Allen, D. L. Crombie, L Gathergood, C Green,
BMJ

Abstract

Much information is available on the incidence of glycosuria in selected populations-derived, for instance, from recruits to the armed Forces, those volunteering to have urine tests during " diabetes weeks," and women during pregnancy-but the great difficulty of ensuring a complete survey on any large and representative sample of a whole population has resulted in a shortage of information in this broader field. Wilkerson and Krall (1947) in Oxford, Massachusetts; Kenny et al. ( Actually, the proportions of the population surveyed ranged from 54 to 81% only (Table Redhead used a constructed sample of his own practice. TABLE I.-Resiults of Previoius Diabetes Surveys Wilkerson and Kral (1947)