Quantifying the underestimation of projected global diabetes prevalence by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Diabetes Atlas

BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2021 Aug;9(1):e002122. doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2021-002122.

Thaddäus Tönnies¹, Wolfgang Rathmann^{2

3}, Annika Hoyer⁴, Ralph Brinks^{2

4

5}, Oliver Kuss^{2

3

6}

¹ Institute for Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center (DDZ), Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany thaddaeus.toennies@ddz.de.
² Institute for Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center (DDZ), Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
³ German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Munich, Neuherberg, Germany.
⁴ Department of Statistics, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
⁵ Chair for Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty of Health/School of Medicine, Witten, Germany.
⁶ Centre for Health and Society, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.

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Keywords: epidemiology.

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