AS197 - Validity of self-reported diabetes mellitus in the Women's Health Initiative

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Investigator Names and Contact Information

Karen Margolis [margo006@umn.edu]

Specific Aims

1. To examine validity of self-reported diabetes mellitus in WHI using a combination of analysis of existing internal data and new collection of external data via chart review

2. To compare the validity of self-reported diabetes in CT (both intervention and control) and OS

3. To compare the validity of prevalent cases reported at baseline with incident cases reported during follow-up

Results/Findings

Some of the publications related to this ancillary study are:  1217 .

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