MARIANNE ENGBERG, MD, PHD BO CHRISTENSEN, MD, PHD BO KARLSMOSE, MD, PHD JØRGEN LOUS, MD, DMSC TORSTEN LAURITZEN, MD, DMSC Aarhus and Ebeltoft, Denmark From the Department of General Practice, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark (M.E., B.C., B.K., J.L., T.L.) and the Ebeltoft Health Promotion Project, Ebeltoft, Denmark (M.E., B.K., T.L.). Financial support was given by the County Health Insurance Office of Aarhus, the Health Promotion Council of Aarhus, the Ministry of Health Foundation for Research and Development, the Health Insurance Fund, the Lundbeck Foundation’s scientific Research Grant to General Practitioners, the Danish College of General Practitioners: a Sara Krabbe scholarship, a Lundbeck scholarship, the General Practitioners’ Education and Development Fund, the Danish Diabetes Association, the Danish Heart Foundation (97-2-F-22515), the Danish Research Foundation for General Practice, the Novo Care Research Fund, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, ASTRA Denmark, Bayer Denmark A/S, Roche Denmark A/S, Farmitalia Carlo Erba/Erbamont Group, and Ebeltoft Municipal Council. Address reprint requests to Marianne Engberg, MD, PhD, Department of General Practice, University of Aarhus, Vennelyst Boulevard 6, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. E-mail: me@alm.au.dk.
Acknowledgments
The following general practitioners participated in the study: A. Bøgedal, P. Grønbæk, L. Jørgensen, P.T. Jørgensen, H. Lundberg, J.M. Nielsen, G.S. Pedersen, J.C. Rahbek, and N. Bie. We thank the staff at the general practitioners clinic in Ebeltoft for their extraordinary efforts, including the extensive and brilliant administrative assistance given by A. Hilligsøe and E. Therkildsen. Thanks also to A. Brock, head of the laboratory at Randers Central Hospital for analysis of blood and urine, and Sally Laird for revision of English texts relating to the study.
