Journal of Clinical Diabetes
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A Reliable, Valid, Sensitive and Simple Method to Quantify Carbohydrate Routine Consumption among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Daniel J. Cox^1*, Matthew Moncrief¹, Harsimran Singh², Anne Diamond¹ and Anthony L. McCall³

¹Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, U.S.A

²Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hoag Memorial Hospital, Newport Beach, CA, U.S.A

³Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, U.S.A

Received Date: Oct 07, 2019 / Accepted Date: Oct 21, 2019 / Published Date: Oct 28, 2019

Citation: Daniel J. Cox , Matthew Moncrief, Harsimran Singh, Anne Diamond, Anthony L. McCall (2021) A Reliable, Valid, Sensitive and Simple Method to Quantify Carbohydrate Routine Consumption among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes. J clin diabt 5:jcds-21-39559.

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Objective: Growing evidence suggests postprandial hyperglycemia, driven largely by carbohydrate consumption, adversely affects A1c and cardiovascular health. The standard for quantifying carbohydrate intake is 24-hour dietary recall (ASA24), which is tedious, time consuming, under-samples due to a short measurement period, and is often impractical. An alternative is needed.

Research Design and Methods: We developed the Carbohydrate Routine Consumption (CRC) scale, which quantifies weekly servings of 16 common high and low glycemic load foods and takes 5 minutes to complete and score. We administered the CRC and the ASA24 to 204 adults with type 2 diabetes.

Results: The CRC was reliable, correlated with the ASA24 and had similar construct and discriminant validity.

Conclusion: The CRC is psychometrically sound and easily employed by clinicians and researchers to document weekly servings of carbohydrate consumption.