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The prevalence of chronic conditions such as hypertension, non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, and coronary heart disease (CHD) in developed countries demand substantial medical resources [ 1 ] . Moreover, these conditions are becoming increasing common among the well-off groups in middle and low-income countries [ 2 ] . While the quality of life and health of individuals is adversely affected by chronic conditions, there is a concomitant loss in work productivity [ 3 4 ] . This is especially important for middle and low-income countries where skilled labor is relatively scarce and the treatment of chronic conditions may entail a reduction in health care resources available for diseases afflicting the poor [ 5 ] . A preventive approach to chronic diseases is therefore appealing.
Diabetes mellitus was considered present if the participant reported physician diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (excluding diagnosis during pregnancy), was taking diabetes medications, had fasting plasma glucose over 7 mmol/l (126 mg/dl), or had non-fasting glucose levels over 11.
Exclusion criteria included previous tuberculosis or tuberculosis treatment, serious co-morbidity such as diabetes mellitus or hypertension, steroid or antiretroviral use (since there was no consistent policy in Uganda on the use of antiretroviral treatment between 1992 and 1995), pregnancy, and WHO clinical stage IV AIDS [ 17 ] .
Advances in transplant-based therapy for type 1 diabetes mellitus [1] and a dearth of cadaveric pancreatic islets of Langerhans have focused interest on developing renewable sources of transplant-ready islet-replacement tissues.
All diabetic patients for the case-control study were recruited from St.Petersburg Diabetological Centres and had participated in the program "Diabetes mellitus" (which included monitoring of trends and examinations of the determinants of vascular complications in Type I diabetes) carried out in St. Petersburg, Russia since 1997.
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