The AusDiab (Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study) baseline study was conducted in 1999–2000, providing national benchmark data on the prevalence (or number of people) of diabetes, obesity, hypertension and kidney disease in Australia. The second phase of AusDiab, completed in December 2005, was a five year follow-up of the people who participated in the baseline survey. A twelve year follow-up was completed in 2012, with the results released in August 2013. The results provide a unique picture of the incidence (or number of new cases) of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and kidney disease over 12 years, and allows us to improve our understanding of the factors that increase the risk of these conditions

AusDiab is a field survey involving both physical testing as well as questionnaires. A team of researchers went to each of the 42 randomly selected testing sites around Australia to individually test each of the 11,247 individuals who participated in the baseline study in 1999–2000. Six and a half thousand of these original participants came back to attend a similar survey five years later in 2004–2005. In addition, self-reported health information was obtained from more than 2000 of those who could not attend the survey site. In 2011 and 2012, a third survey of these participants was conducted, allowing an unprecedented opportunity to map the changing impact that diabetes, heart disease and kidney disease have on the Australian population. The findings of the third survey were released in August 2013.

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Provide a valuable national resource for the study of the prevalence and possible causes of diabetes, as well as identifying possible risk factors that may lead to diabetes.

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Consent-based study