Resources

Links and downloadable documents

 

Early identification of people with Type 2 diabetes (Diabetes UK Position Statement, June 2006)

Measure Up Information sheet (PDF) 805KB – who should be screened and how

Measure Up healthcare professional A3 poster (PDF) 760KB
  
Risk factors and symptoms of Type 2 diabetes

Definition, Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus and its Complications (World Health Organisation report, 1999 – downloadable from the WHO website at www.who.int/diabetes/currentpublications/en/)

Measure Up Awareness campaign promotional materials order form (PDF) 60KB 
  
Diabetes UK Shared Practice database – for examples of good practice in diabetes services

 

Research used to develop the campaign focus on waist measurement.

Waist circumference may be an even better marker of diabetes risk than either weight or BMI  alone
 
Tucker, KL et al  Type 2 Diabetes is prevalent and poorly controlled among Hispanic elders of Caribbean origin
American Journal of Public Health, 2000, 90, pp1288–1293

Morricone L et al  The role of central  fat distribution in coronary artery disease in obesity: comparison of nondiabetic obese, diabetic obese and normal weight subjects
International Journal of Obesity Related Metabolism Disorders, 1999, 23, pp1129–1135

Even among non-obese patients, abdominal distribution of fat and increased waist measurements are independently associated with the risk for diabetes.

Carey, DG et al Abdominal fat and insulin resistance in normal and overweight women: direct measurements reveal a strong relationship in subjects at  both low and high risk of NIDDM  
Diabetes, 1996, 45, pp633–638


Warne, DK Comparison of body size measurements as predictors of NIDDM in Pima Indians  
Diabetes Care, 1995, 18, pp435–439

Recent prospective studies suggest that central obesity as represented  by anthropometric measurements such as waist circumference  is a better predictor  of the development of diabetes  than overall obesity as reflected by BMI measurements


Wei et al Waist circumference as the best predictor of  non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) compared to body mass index, waist hip ratio and other anthropometric measurements in Mexican Americans – a seven-year prospective study Obesity Research, 1997, 5, pp16–23


Wat, NMS et al  Central obesity predicts the worsening of glycaemia in southern Chinese 
International Journal of Obesity, 2001, 25, pp1789–93