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Another very
important milestone in diabetes epidemiology was a conference held in 1978
at the Kroc Foundation in California. It was the first major meeting on the
epidemiology of diabetes. The proceedings from this conference were
published in Diabetes Care in the 1979 (4). The publication holds a
remarkable set of papers including the initial findings of the first ever
major international diabetes epidemiology collaboration, the WHO
Multinational Study on Vascular Disease (5), spearheaded by Harry Keen, John
Jarrett, Kelly West and Peter Bennett. It also contains extensive debate on
appropriate methodology and the foundations for the 1980 WHO Expert
Committee report on Diabetes.
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