3 results match your criteria: "201 Dowman Drive Emory University[Affiliation]"

Aims: Guidelines recommend hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) as a diagnostic test for type 2 diabetes, but its accuracy may differ in certain ethnic groups.

Methods: The prevalence of type 2 diabetes by HbA1c, fasting glucose, and 2 h glucose was compared in 3016 participants from Chennai and Delhi, India from the CARRS-2 Study to 757 Indians in the U.S.

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Ethnic differences in the prevalence of diabetes in underweight and normal weight individuals: The CARRS and NHANES studies.

Diabetes Res Clin Pract

December 2018

Emory Global Diabetes Research Center, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Room 7040 N Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Nutrition and Health Sciences Program, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, Room 7000, Atlanta, GA, USA; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, 201 Dowman Drive Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Electronic address:

Aims: Type 2 diabetes in lean individuals has recently come to attention. We assessed type 2 diabetes prevalence and the associated risk factors in underweight and normal weight individuals in two ethnic populations.

Methods: We conducted cross-sectional analyses, using representative samples of 4930 Asian Indians from the CARRS-Chennai Study and 2868 Whites from the NHANES Survey.

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Glucose patterns during the OGTT and risk of future diabetes in an urban Indian population: The CARRS study.

Diabetes Res Clin Pract

April 2017

Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 2, Building 1260, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark; Danish Diabetes Academy, Odense University Hospital, Sdr Boulevard 29, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark. Electronic address:

Aims: Traditionally, fasting and 2-hour post challenge plasma glucose have been used to diagnose diabetes. However, evidence indicates that clinically relevant pathophysiological information can be obtained by adding intermediate time-points to a standard oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).

Methods: We studied a population-based sample of 3666 Asian Indians without diabetes from the CARRS-Chennai Study, India.

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