2008
DOI: 10.1177/1740774508091749
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Validity of diabetes self-reports in the Women's Health Initiative: comparison with medication inventories and fasting glucose measurements

Abstract: In the WHI, self-reported prevalent and incident diabetes was consistent with medication inventories, and a high proportion of those with undiagnosed diabetes subsequently reported diabetes treatment. Self-reports of ;treated diabetes' are sufficiently accurate to allow use in epidemiologic studies.

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“…Risk factors and demographic characteristics included baseline self-reported age, race, education, income, body mass index (BMI), smoking, alcohol intake, hormone therapy (HT) use, physical activity, energy intake, salt intake, history of diabetes, 16 hypertension, or high cholesterol, as well as sugar-sweetened beverage intake. Age was assessed in years as both continuous and categorical (49-59, 60-64, 65-69, ≥ 70), physical activity was measured as total energy expended, and energy intake was measured as calibrated total calories.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Risk factors and demographic characteristics included baseline self-reported age, race, education, income, body mass index (BMI), smoking, alcohol intake, hormone therapy (HT) use, physical activity, energy intake, salt intake, history of diabetes, 16 hypertension, or high cholesterol, as well as sugar-sweetened beverage intake. Age was assessed in years as both continuous and categorical (49-59, 60-64, 65-69, ≥ 70), physical activity was measured as total energy expended, and energy intake was measured as calibrated total calories.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although studies suggest that self-report of these conditions is reasonably accurate, 36,37 misreporting leading to respondent misclassification could have obscured true BMI-mortality relationships, especially if misreporting varied by BMI category. We also were unable to distin-guish type 1 from type 2 diabetes in our data set.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, a growing body of literature suggests that self-reported risk factor, chronic disease, and health status variables are reasonably accurate relative to measured variables. [21][22][23] Second, the survey's telephone sampling methodology might under-represent those without regular access to telephones, with cell phones, or who speak a language other than English or Spanish, factors that are prevalent within both Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the US. Third, because of the limited Pacific Islander sample, some of the subgroup sample sizes were relatively small, as indicated by wide confidence intervals for variables such as coronary heart disease and heavy alcohol intake.…”
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confidence: 99%