The incidence of diabetes mellitus in an English community: a 20-year follow-up of the Whickham Survey.

The original Whickham Survey documented the prevalence of diabetes and lipid disorders in a sample of 2779 adults aged 18 years and over, which matched the British population structure. The aim of the 20-year follow-up study was to determine the incidence and natural history of diabetes. Outcomes in terms of morbidity and mortality at follow-up were determined in over 97% of the original population.

The development of ischemic heart disease in relation to autoimmune thyroid disease in a 20-year follow-up study of an English community.

The original Whickham Survey documented risk factors for cardiovascular disease and the prevalence of thyroid disorders in a sample of 2779 adults that closely matched the British population. A 20-year follow-up study has determined outcomes in terms of morbidity and mortality from ischemic heart disease in over 97% of the original survey population. Analysis of deaths from all causes and from ischemic heart disease showed no association with antithyroid antibody status identified at first survey.

The incidence of thyroid disorders in the community: a twenty-year follow-up of the Whickham Survey.

Background And Objective: The original Whickham Survey documented the prevalence of thyroid disorders in a randomly selected sample of 2779 adults which matched the population of Great Britain in age, sex and social class. The aim of the twenty-year follow-up survey was to determine the incidence and natural history of thyroid disease in this cohort.

Design, Patients And Measurements: Subjects were traced at follow-up via the Electoral Register, General Practice registers, Gateshead Family Health Services Authority register and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.

Diabetes care in general practice: an approach to audit of process and outcome.

As a chronic condition in which the major adverse outcomes only occur after many years, diabetes poses special problems for continuing medical audit. The feasibility of continuous audit of process and outcome in diabetes care has been tested in four general practices with organized diabetes care in Newcastle upon Tyne. For all patients with previously diagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetes, the data already collected according to published protocols were assembled into a single database.