Table 2.

Abbreviations of the cohorts of commonly referenced studies.

Acronym	Short title of the study cohort	Reference
CLM	Castilla-La Mancha Multicentre Study	Sastre et al. [2012]
DCCT/EDIC	Diabetes Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications	Nathan et al. [2005
DPV	German Surveillance Database	Schwab et al. [2006]
EDC	The Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complication Study	Pambianco et al. [2006]
EURODIAB	EURODIAB Prospective Complication Study	Soedamah-Muthu et al. [2008]
FinnDiane	Finnish Diabetic Nephropathy Study	Gordin et al. [2011]
GPRD	UK General Practice Research Database	Soedamah-Muthu et al. [2006b]
IEMR	Cross-sectional study of cardiovascular disease risk factors in patients with type 1 diabetes at the Isfahan Endocrine & Metabolism Research Centre	Kalantari et al. [2007]
JMRH	Jamaica Major Referral Hospitals Study	Tulloch-Reid et al. [2009]
LAHDCA	Liverpool Aintree Hospital Diabetes Clinic Audit	Wallymahmed et al. [2005]
LDRDS	Lithuanian Type 1 Diabetes Register Database Study	Dobrovolskienė et al. [2013]
NCDQ	Norwegian Childhood Diabetes and Quality Project	Margeirsdottir et al. [2008]
NCDR	Norwegian Childhood Diabetes Registry	Skrivarhaug et al. [2006]
SRLS	Scottish Registry Linkage Study	Livingstone et al. [2012]
UHVGPD	University Hospitals Vienna and Graz Paediatric Department Study	Steigleder-Schweiger et al. [2012]