40 th Annual Meeting of the European Diabetes Epidemiology Group (Study Group of the EASD), Siófok (Hungary) 2/5 April, 2005
 

Topics:

1. Utility and disutility of diagnostic labels which identify hyperglycemic status
2. Diabetes prevention: the balance between social and individual process
3. Novel and traditional risk factors for macro- and microvacular complications
4. Miscellaneous
Saturday 2
14.00-22.00 Registration
19.00 Welcome address
Opening lecture (Chairs: Olga Vaccaro – Peter Stella)

Rising incidence of childhood onset type 1 diabetes – the role for environmental and genetic factors (Gyula Soltész, Hungary)
Welcome reception
Sunday 3
8.30 Opening remarks
8.45 Diabetes prevention: the balance between social and individual process (Topic 2) (Chairs: György Jermendy – Peter Bennett)

Interventions without success and success without interventions (John Powles, England)
Individually tailored diabetes prevention? (Ronald Stolk, the Netherlands)
9.45 General Discussion
10.00 Coffee break
10.30 Oral presentations
Chairs: Evelyn Eschwege – Richard Hamman

1. Cathrine Lau (bursary winner): Glycemic index, glycemic load and the probability of impaired fasting glycemia or impaired glucose tolerance. The INTER99 Study
2. Teresa Hillier: The Metabolic Syndrome can be assessed both continuously and practically with principal components analysis. The D.E.S.I.R. Cohort
3. Anne Karen Jenum: A community intervention promoting physical activity reduced weight gain and beneficially affected cardiovascular risk factors in a low-income urban district
4. Therese Tillin: Different effects of life-time socio-economic position on diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors in white european and african caribbean men
5. Marit Eika Jørgensen: A new self-report instrument for measuring physical activity; influence of formulation and survey context
6. Signe Sætre Rasmussen (bursary winner): One year follow-up in general practice on the progression from IGT and IFG to diabetes in a high risk population, ADDITION DK
12.00 Poster event
Hall A - Chairs: Nick Wareham

1. Kristine Færch: Macronutrients associated with impaired fasting glycemia (IFG) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) in Danish adults. The INTER99 Study
2. Arthur Teuscher: Selecting natural insulin improves access to cost-effective therapy of diabetic patients in the public sector of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
3. Ann John: Prevention of Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) - active identification and management of those with pre-diabetes
4. Zbigniew Szybinski: Population Strategy in Primary Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases Type 2 Diabetes , Hypertension and Atherosclerosis Identification of the Persons at Risk. A Pilot Study
5. Adam Tabak: A comparison of process indicators between Hungary and the US

Hall B Chairs: Zsuzsa Kerényi

1. Bendix Carstensen: Interpretation and use of zero-inflated Poisson models and extensions for description of hypoglycemic events
2. Melissa Hagan: Is birthweight associated with all cause and CAD mortality in patients with type 1 diabetes ? A report from the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications (EDC) Study
3. Sinead Brophy: Epidemiology of Latent Autoimmune Diabetes [LADA] in three centers in Europe
4. Anne Fagot-Campagna: Preventive/care practices for microvascular complications and determinants of practices among people treated for diabetes. The ENTRED Study, France, 2001
5. Elke Austenat: Diabetes night-clinic-system reduces costs the diabetic treatment under everyday-life conditions
6. Anette Buyken: Long-term stability of C-peptide levels in 24-h urine samples of healthy children participating in the DONALD Study
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Utility and disutility of labels which identify hyperglycemic status (Topic 1)
Chairs: Ronald Stolk – Knut Borch-Johnsen

The value of identifying, and classifying those at risk (Trevor Orchard, USA)
Psychological impact of disease labels in diabetes (Theresa Marteau, England)
15.30 General Discussion
15.45 Coffee break
16.15 Oral presentations
Chairs: Assiamira Ferrara – Charlotte Glümer

1. Dana Dabelea: Increasing prevalence of gestational diabetes (GDM) over time and by birth cohort: the Kaiser Permanente of Colorado Screening Program
2. Daniel R. Witte: Stability of glucose tolerance status during 10 years of follow-up
3. Eric Brunner: Performance of existing risk scores in screening for undiagnosed type 2 diabetes
17.00 Business meeting
19.30 Concert and Gala dinner
Monday 4
8.30 Novel and traditional risk factors for macro- and microvascular complications (Topic 3)
Chairs: John Fuller – Kalevi Pyörala

Insight into the pathogenesis of diabetic micro-and macrovascular complications - the role of novel and traditional risk factors (Peter Kempler, Hungary)
Risk assessment of diabetes related complications (Knut Borch-Johnsen, Denmark)
9.30 General discussion
9.45 Oral presentations
Chairs: Nish Chaturvedi – Elizabeth Barrett-Connor

1. Trevor J. Orchard: Though incidence of microvascular complications declines overtime, glycemic exposure at complication diagnosis remains constant
2. Beverley Balkau: Does the Metabolic Syndrome detect subjects at high risk of cardiovascular death, other than those who would already be identified by a cardiovascular risk score ? The DECODE Study
3. Tomoko Nakagami: Screen detected diabetes, hypertension and hypercholesterinemia as predictors of fatal cardiovascular disease in five populations of asian origin
4. Auni Juutilainen: Retinopathy as a predictor of cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetic men and women
5. Robyn Tapp (bursary winner): Association of fasting plasma glucoe with left ventricular diastolic function
6. Dominique Simon: Glycated haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) as a predictive marker for mortality in a healthy adult population – the Telecom Study
11.15 Coffee break
11.30 Poster event
Hall A - Chairs: Dominique Simon

1. Gang Hu: The impact of diabetes and myocardial infarction at baseline and during follow-up on mortality from all causes and coronary heart disease
2. Karen Oppfeldt: Impact of obesity on cardiovascular risk factors in South India and Denmark
3. Fatma Harzallah: Cardiovascular risk factors and macrovascular complications in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes adult patients
4. Keresztes Katalin: Relationship between autonomic neuropathy and 24-hour-ambulatory blood pressure profile in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
5. Sabita S. Soedamah-Muthu: Risk factors for all-cause mortality in type 1 diabetic patients in Europe, the EURODIAB Prospective Complications Study
6. Graziella Bruno: APOB is a better predictor of cardiovascular mortality than non-HDL-cholesterol in type 2 diabetic subjects:the Casale Monferrato Study
7. Zsolt Hermányi: Comparison of CASE IV, Medoc, Neurometer, Neurometer Rapid, Calibrated Tuning Fork, Neuropathy Impairment Score (NIS), MTHF gene polimorfism methods to Nerve Conduction Velocity in the diagnosis of diabetic polyneuropathy

Hall B - Chairs: Péter Kempler
1. Elżbieta Bandurska: Both lower socioeconomic status and rural residence are associated with incidence of blindness due to diabetes in the Warmia and Mazury region, Poland
2. Elżbieta Bandurska: Association of duration of type 1 diabetes mellitus with frequency of diabetic eye complications in Warmia and Mazury region, Poland.
3. Sandrine Fosse: Estimating prevalence of micro and macrovascular complications among people treated for diabetes and living in France: limitations of self-reported and care provider reports for diabetes surveillance – the ENTRED Study
4. Alka Kanaya: Adiponectin and Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) among older adults: differential association by race and glucose tolerance categories
5. S. Van Den Eeden: Diabetes and risk of erectile dysfunction in a multiethnic cohort: comparing non-diabetic and diabetic men
6. Sarah Wild: Relative risks of diabetes for overweight and obesity vary with sex and age
7. Nigel Unwin: Urbanisation and the risk of the Metabolic Syndrome: the Urbanisation and Metabolic Outcomes Study of Tanzania (UMOST)
12.40 Lunch
14.00 Social programme
Tuesday 5
8.30 Miscellaneous (Topic 4)
Chairs: Beverly Balkau

Meta-Analysis and Systematic Reviews in Diabetes Epidemiology: Past and Future (Mathias Egger, Switzerland)
9.00 General Discussion
9.15 Coffee break
9.45 Poster event
Hall A - Chairs: Ádám Tabák

1. Attila Kun: The incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus in Tolna county during 2000
2. Ildikó Istenes (bursary winner): Do initial blood pressure values influence blood pressure changes in the standard cardiovascular tests ?
3. Nina Martinsen: Prevalence estimates of type 2 daibetes and daibetic complications in Greenland in 2014
4. Karen Norberg: The influence of the increasing prevalence of obesity on the prediction of type 2 diabetes in the year 2015
5. Charlotte Glümer: A world wide risk score for detecting individuals with impaired glucose metabolism or diabetes
6. Liatis Stavros: Meeting American Diabetes Association (ADA) treatment targets in a diabetes outpatient clinic

Hall B Chairs: Nigel Unwin

1. Jean-Michel Oppert: Sedentary behaviors and physical activity in relation with the Metabolic Syndrome in middle-aged French subjects (The SU.VI.MAX Study)
2. Daniela Saes Sartorelli: Dietary fiber in relation to risk of impaired fasting glucose and glucose tolerance in Japanese migrants
3. Jannet Svensson: Sensitivity and specificity of the Danish Discharge Register regarding children with insulindependent diabetes mellitus
4. Jonathan Betz Brown: Positive sensory symptoms typical of diabetic peripheral neuropathy are associated with dramatically poorer functional status and lower quality of life
5. Mark S. Pearce: Association between glucose and insulin levels and oral health at age 50 years: the Newcastle Thousend Families Study
6. Ulrike Rothe: Evaluation of diabetes practice guidelines in Saxony by using a data pool of a shared care model – new results
10.45 Oral presentations
Chairs: Gyula Tamás – Trevor J. Orchard

1. Anne-Helen Harding: Is fish consumption protective against type 2 diabetes: the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer-Norfolk Study
2. Wendy Shultis (bursary winner): Haemoglobin A1c in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)
3. Richard F. Hamman: Progression of glucose intolerance differs among hispanics versus non-hispanic whites in the San Luis Valley Diabetes Study (SLVDS)
4. Tina Costacou: Insulin resistance and dose in relation to adiponectin levels in type 1 diabetes
5. Assiamira Ferrara: Elevation in plasma glucose levels below the National Diabetes Data Group (NDDG) thresholds for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are associated with an increased risk of perinatal complications
12.00 Closing remarks followed by lunch
Total no.of oral presentations: 20

Bursaries:

1. Abstract no. 6 – oral – Danish
2. Abstract no. 11 – oral – British
3. Abstract no. 21 – oral – French
4. Abstract no. 53 – oral – Danish
5. Abstract no. 8 – poster - Hungarian