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Health Reports, June 2013

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Released: 2013-06-19

The June 2013 online issue of Health Reports, released today, contains two articles.

The first article, "Self-monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes: Results of the 2011 Survey on Living with Chronic Diseases in Canada," examines the prevalence, frequency and correlates of self-monitoring of blood glucose, based on 2,682 individuals aged 20 or older with type 2 diabetes mellitus who responded to the 2011 Survey on Living with Chronic Diseases in Canada.

For more information on this article, contact Jeffrey Johnson (780-492-7317; jeff.johnson@ualberta.ca), University of Alberta.

The second article, "Modelling risk factor information for linked census data: The case of smoking," assesses the feasibility of using statistical modelling techniques to fill information gaps related to risk factors, specifically, smoking, in linked census data. Based on the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), predictive algorithms were developed to model smoking status using variables common to the CCHS and the 1991 long-form Census. The resulting smoking variable was validated by comparing the performance of modelled versus self-reported smoking status in predicting smoking-related hospitalizations based on linked health survey and hospital data.

For more information on this article, contact Claudia Sanmartin (613-951-6059; claudia.sanmartin@statcan.gc.ca), Health Analysis Division.

The June 2013 online issue of Health Reports, Vol. 24, no. 6 (Catalogue number82-003-X), is now available from the Browse by key resource module of our website under Publications.

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