Consumption of Intense Sweeteners in Australia and New Zealand
5 Key findings - Diary Survey of people with Diabetes or Impaired Glucose Tolerance
For the analysis in this section of the report, the diary data from the respondents with diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance who were recruited from the screener survey of the general population was combined with diary data from the separate sample of diabetics recruited from various other sources. This merging of data helped form an overall diabetics/impaired glucose tolerance group. It should be noted however, as previously mentioned in the methodology section of this report, that this overall combined sample of people with diabetes/impaired glucose tolerance was only a purposive sample and therefore not representative in nature.
In this section of the report, these diabetic/impaired glucose tolerance diary respondents are analysed by country (Australia and New Zealand). However, in parts, this group is also compared with those respondents from the main diary survey who had neither of these two medical conditions.
Differences between the above groups in their mean daily exposures have been mentioned in the text where they were determined to be statistically significant at the 95% confidence level, using a one-tailed Z-score test. [ more... pdf 183 kb ]
Execitive summary | 1 Introduction | 2 Methodology | 3 Key findings - Screener survey | 4 Key findings - Diary survey | 5 Key findings - Diary survey diabetics | 6 Conclusions and recommendations | List of References | Appendixes