Who Collaborating Center - Epidemiological and Clinical Investigations in Diabete

Bennett, Peter H.

Abstract

Since 1986 the Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch has been designated as the World Health Organization (WHO)Collaborating Center for Design, Methodology and Analysis of Epidemiological and Clinical Investigations in Diabetes. The purposes of the Center are to collaborate with WHO to implement the WHO/IDF action program on diabetes and to provide advice, consultation and collaboration with other investigators in the design, methodology and analysis of epidemiological and clinical studies of type 2 diabetes and its complications. The center assists in the development and application of standardized methods for epidemiological and clinical investigation and data analysis relating to the etiology and pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes and its complications. The Center advises in the design of new studies, and provides on-site assistance when necessary. The Center serves to train investigators from many parts of the world in diabetes epidemiology and clinical research. The center participated in the Consultation Group which has made the recently adopted WHO recommendations on the Definition, Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus and its Complications, and this year has trained investigators from Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom.

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
• Type: Intramural Research (Z01)
• Project #: 1Z01DK069024-14
• Application #: 6432202
• Study Section: (PECR)
• Support Year: 14
• Fiscal Year: 2000

Institution

• Name: U.S. National Inst Diabetes/Digst/Kidney
• Country: United States

Publications

Lee, E T; Keen, H; Bennett, P H et al. (2001) Follow-up of the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetes: general description and morbidity. Diabetologia 44 Suppl 2:S3-13

Chi, Z S; Lee, E T; Lu, M et al. (2001) Vascular disease prevalence in diabetic patients in China: standardised comparison with the 14 centres in the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetes. Diabetologia 44 Suppl 2:S82-6

Lee, E T; Lu, M; Bennett, P H et al. (2001) Vascular disease in younger-onset diabetes: comparison of European, Asian and American Indian cohorts of the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetes. Diabetologia 44 Suppl 2:S78-81

Keen, H; Lee, E T; Russell, D et al. (2001) The appearance of retinopathy and progression to proliferative retinopathy: the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetes. Diabetologia 44 Suppl 2:S22-30

Miki, E; Lu, M; Lee, E T et al. (2001) The incidence of visual impairment and its determinants in the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetes. Diabetologia 44 Suppl 2:S31-6

Colhoun, H M; Lee, E T; Bennett, P H et al. (2001) Risk factors for renal failure: the WHO Mulinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetes. Diabetologia 44 Suppl 2:S46-53

Kriska, A M; Pereira, M A; Hanson, R L et al. (2001) Association of physical activity and serum insulin concentrations in two populations at high risk for type 2 diabetes but differing by BMI. Diabetes Care 24:1175-80

Bennett, P H; Lee, E T; Lu, M et al. (2001) Increased urinary albumin excretion and its associations in the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetes. Diabetologia 44 Suppl 2:S37-45

Esparza, J; Fox, C; Harper, I T et al. (2000) Daily energy expenditure in Mexican and USA Pima indians: low physical activity as a possible cause of obesity. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 24:55-9

Brun, E; Nelson, R G; Bennett, P H et al. (2000) Diabetes duration and cause-specific mortality in the Verona Diabetes Study. Diabetes Care 23:1119-23