MEDLINE
Search Strategies: Diabetes
Diabetes
Mellitus, Type 2
is a Medical Subject Heading (MeSH), and if you formulate your search
strategy within the MeSH browser (follow link at the beginning of this
sentence), you can limit to specific subheadings. Additional MeSH can
be added to narrow your search.
Alternatively, if
you use enough words in your query, you can enter it into the default
PubMed
query box. For example, typing in "type 2 diabetes AND television"
mapped to the MeSH for "diabetes mellitus, type 2" as well
as words that appeared in abstracts or titles, producing 23 citations
on May 5, 2004. Among these was an abstract
to a study in JAMA showing that television watching is a risk for diabetes.
PubMed includes
a number of filters that can be helpful in focusing your search. For
example, using the MeSH brower, a search for papers indexed under "Diabetes
Mellitus, Type II"[MeSH] produced more than 31,000 hits during
mid-2004. However, using the "limits" feature and limiting
these results to the publication type "practice guideline"
produced 86 hits [updated
preconstructed search]. In a similar vein, limiting the results
instead to the publication type "meta-analysis" produced 67
hits [updated
preconstructed search].
