Table 1 illustrates the characteristics for both the study population of KiGGS Wave 1 with data derived from the telephone interview and for the subsample of KiGGS Wave 1 that participated in the MoMo physical examination.
The causes of death, for both the study population and the general population, came from the national cause of death register.
Serum glucose, HbA1C, cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol were determined by standard methodologies followed in the respective labs in both the study population.
The potential for inconsistencies in the coding of discharge records challenges the accuracy of the assessment of the outcome and of the risk factors in both the study population and in other populations [ 12].
Because couples may present at the clinics for problems relating to either male or female fertility problems (or both), the study population includes fertile men and men with a range of fertility problems.
Despite the fact that the mean UCd and Uβ2-MG levels among the subjects of some study areas were different, an obvious dose response relationship existed between the UCd and the prevalence of renal dysfunction in both the study population of single area and the total study population of all five areas.
Detailed history, anthropometric and biochemical measures such as age, sex, type of diabetes, duration of diabetes, HbA1C, smoking status, medications, blood pressure, micro- and macro-vascular complications of diabetes, lipid profile, vitamin B12 and folate levels were collected from both the study population.
In both the US and Taiwan, the study populations were community-based and representative, not selected for health status and not institutionalised in this cross-sectional study.
