A retrospective cohort study on the risk factors for noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) in Korea

During the last decades, the prevalence of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) increased worldwide and the disease has become one of the major public health problems in Korea. It affects about 7.2% of Korean adults over 30 years of age. Several Korean papers reported that natural history of diabetes in Korea seems to be quite different from that observed in western countries In this regard, we conducted a retrospective cohort study. to determine the risk of NIDDM among Korean adults.