About CASSIDY
The Comprehensive Analysis, Surveillance, and Statistics Initiative for Diabetes in the Young (CASSIDY) is a network of five participating clinical centers and a Coordinating Center led by researchers at NYU Langone Health. We are modernizing methods for utilizing electronic health record data to generate geographically representative measures of diabetes burden and diabetes-related complications in children, adolescents, and young adults.
The goals of the Network are to assess:
- Prevalence of diabetes
- Incidence of diabetes
- Risk factors and diabetes-related complications
This project uses large-scale electronic health records data to characterize the burden of diabetes and diabetes-related complications by age, sex, diabetes type and race/ethnicity across geographic populations. It is designed to provide timely and accurate data to support public health and clinical programming efforts to address diabetes prevention and management.
Why are new approaches for diabetes surveillance needed?
Diabetes is a serious condition that affects over 38 million Americans, and poses a substantial public health burden, especially among those diagnosed among individuals under 45. Diabetes surveillance approaches such as registries and surveys can provide accurate measures of diabetes burden. However, these approaches often require long planning and execution time, and can be costly.
CASSIDY is modernizing methods for monitoring and tracking diabetes and diabetes-related complications in children, adolescents, and young adults to provide granular data about diabetes burden in the US that is:
- Highly accurate
- Timely
- Cost-effective
This information will be used to inform decision-making and prioritize national public health objectives.
Who funds our work?
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) works to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the United States. To accomplish our mission, CDC conducts critical science and provides health information that protects our nation against expensive and dangerous health threats and responds when these arise.
Learn more about our results.
Click here to view publications produced by the DiCAYA project. CASSIDY publications will be coming soon.
View our publications