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Diabetes int. (Middle East/Afr. ed.)
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25(2): 19-20, 2018. tab
Article
in English
| AIM
| ID: biblio-1261229
ABSTRACT
This study has investigated the prevalence of type 2 diabetes among 1119 police officers in Guinea-Bissau.Those with a random blood glucose (RBG) >8.0 mol/l had HbA1c (glycated haemoglobin) testing. Diabetes (HbA1c >6.5%) was present in 4.1%, and pre-diabetes (HbA1c 5.76.5%) was present in a further 4.2%. Factors associated with diabetes were age, weight and ethnicity