Study overview
Overview
- Study title
- Chennai Urban Rural Epidemiology Study (CURES)
- Participants enrolled
- 26,001
- Lead institute
- Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF)
- Principal investigator (PI)
- M Deepa (MDRF)
- Principal investigator profile
- Open profile
- Study design
- Longitudinal
- Location
- Tamil Nadu (Chennai)
- Single / multiple sites
- Single Site
- Key highlights
- The Chennai Urban Rural Epidemiology Study (CURES) is a major population-based study in India focused on diabetes prevalence, insulin resistance syndrome, and related metabolic conditions in urban and rural Chennai populations. The study investigate into the prevalence, risk factors, and complications of diabetes in South Indian populations.
- Reference paper 1
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25906786/
- Reference paper 2
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14710970/
Insights & criteria
Insights
- Inclusion criteria
- Non-diabetic at baseline or Known glucose tolerence status
- Exclusion criteria
- Already diabetic at baseline or Loss at Follow-up or Glycemic status Unknown
- Socio‑demographic / economic
- Urban and Rural Setting
- Recruitment and timeline
- 2001-2003
- Follow‑up
- Multiple Sub-studies Follow-up
- Keywords
- Epidemiology, Cardiometabolic risk
Details
Details
- Age group
- ≥20 years
- Gender
- Men & Women
- Scope
- National
- Category
- Adult and Aging Cohort