Executive summary 2020 will go down in history as the year when the global community was
awakened to the fragility of human health and the interdependence of the ecosystem …

The current approach to prenatal care, which involves visits at 16, 24, 28, 30, 32, 34 and 36
weeks and then weekly until delivery, was established 80 years ago. The high concentration …

Description: Update of the 2008 US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
recommendation on screening for diabetes in asymptomatic adults. Methods: The USPSTF …

Diabetes triples the risk for active tuberculosis, thus the increasing burden of type 2 diabetes
will help to sustain the present tuberculosis epidemic. Recommendations have been made …

Background The increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes poses a major public health
challenge. Population-based screening and early treatment for type 2 diabetes could reduce …

Objective To develop and validate a new diabetes risk algorithm (the QDScore) for
estimating 10 year risk of acquiring diagnosed type 2 diabetes over a 10 year time period in …

The federal government has implemented several strategies to reduce mortality caused by
chronic non-communicable diseases (CNTD). One example is the development of medical …

One century ago it was recognized that with the methods and material at our disposal we
were not making all the progress possible toward solving many problems of prenatal …

Objective To develop a model for the prediction of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) from
maternal characteristics and biochemical markers at 11 to 13 weeks' gestation. Methods A …

Aim The present study aimed to validate the Finnish Type 2 Diabetes Risk Score
(FINDRISC) questionnaire for its ability to predict the presence of any glucose homoeostasis …