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Acronyms were first used to identify clinical trials in the 1970s. [5] The first identified instance was "UGDP", an initialism for University Group Diabetes Program. The first trial title commonly pronounced as an English-language word or words came in 1982 with the publication of "MRFIT", referring to the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial, and spoken as "Mr. Fit" or "the Mr. Fit trial".
The United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) [1] was the largest clinical research study into diabetes ever conducted at the time. [2] The study was conceived by Professor Robert Turner at Oxford University in 1976, conducted in the UK in 1977-1997, and published main results in 1998. [citation needed]
Diabetes Care is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published since 1978 by the American Diabetes Association. The journal covers research in the following five ...
The Science of Diabetes Self-Management and Care is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Endocrinology. The journal's editor is James Fain, PhD, RN, BC-ADM, FAAN (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth). It has been in publication since 1980 and until 2021 was titled The Diabetes Educator. [1]
This index correlates well with glucose clamp studies (r = 0.78), and is useful for measuring insulin sensitivity (IS), which is the inverse of insulin resistance (IR). It has the advantage of that it can be obtained from a fasting blood sample, and is the preferred method for certain types of clinical research.
It is estimated that until now, nearly 87% of genomic research of this type has been conducted in Europeans. Use of ethnically diverse cohorts in diabetes studies ‘generates better results ...
Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index.According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2010 impact factor is 2.468, ranking it 27 out of 66 journals in the category "Peripheral Vascular Disease" [1] and 66 out of 116 journals in the category "Endocrinology & Metabolism".
The European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) is a scientific association founded in Montecatini Terme, Italy in 1965 with Joseph Hoet as Founding President. [1] The aims of the association are to encourage and support research in the field of diabetes , the rapid diffusion of acquired knowledge in that field, and to facilitate its ...