Atencion primaria
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Multicenter Study
[Validity of new diagnostic criteria for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Impact of its application in a health care area].
To estimate how the number of diabetics known as type 2 is modified by applying the American Diabetes Association (ADA) new diagnostic criteria. To calculate the sensitivity, specificity and predictive values of the ADA diagnostic criteria. ⋯ The prevalence of diabetes when the WHO criteria are applied is significantly higher than when ADA criteria are applied (p = 0.000). The basal glycemia value of > or = 126 is less sensitive than the glucose tolerance test. No normoglycemic patient according to the ADA would be diabetic according to the WHO; however the ADA and the WHO classify the non-normoglycemics in different groups. The WHO criteria (scrupulously applied) are the better diagnostic method for diabetes in principle and the glucose tolerance test is a test not to be done away with.