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. 2021 Feb:172:108646.
doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2020.108646. Epub 2020 Dec 24.

Prevalence of diabetes and pre-diabetes in Greece. Results of the First National Survey of Morbidity and Risk Factors (EMENO) study

Konstantinos Makrilakis  1 , Natasa Kalpourtzi  2 , Ioannis Ioannidis  3 , Stella Iraklianou  4 , Athanasios Raptis  5 , Alexis Sotiropoulos  6 , Magda Gavana  7 , Apostolos Vantarakis  8 , Maria Kantzanou  2 , Christos Hadjichristodoulou  9 , Grigoris Chlouverakis  10 , Grigoris Trypsianis  11 , Paraskevi V Voulgari  12 , Yannis Alamanos  13 , Giota Touloumi  2 , Stavros Liatis  14 ; EMENO Study Group
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Prevalence of diabetes and pre-diabetes in Greece. Results of the First National Survey of Morbidity and Risk Factors (EMENO) study

Konstantinos Makrilakis et al. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2021 Feb.

Abstract

Aims: To report the results of the first national Health Examination Survey (HES) on the prevalence of diabetes, its pharmacologic treatment and level of control, as well as pre-diabetes in Greece.

Methods: Data were derived from the National Survey of Morbidity and Risk Factors (EMENO), in a randomly selected, representative sample of the adult Greek population. Sampling weights were applied to adjust for study design and post-stratification weights to match sample age/sex distribution to the population. Non-response was adjusted by inverse probability weighting. Weighted prevalence estimates are provided.

Results: A total of 4393 persons with HbA1c and/or fasting plasma glucose measurements were included. Total diabetes prevalence was 11.9% (95% CI: 10.9-12.9), known diabetes 10.4% (9.5-11.4), and unknown 1.5% (1.1-1.9), with considerable increase in older age groups and no difference between genders. Pre-diabetes prevalence was 12.4% (11.4-13.6). The majority of persons with known diabetes were receiving metformin. Of those with known diabetes (and measured HbA1c), 70.9% were well controlled (HbA1c <7.0%).

Conclusions: This first representative national HES showed high prevalence of diabetes in Greece, with low prevalence of unknown diabetes. Pre-diabetes prevalence is also substantial. These results will hopefully enable national authorities develop tailored and efficient strategies for disease prevention and management.

Keywords: Diabetes mellitus; Greece; Health examination survey; Pre-diabetes; Prevalence.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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