Community data of adults fasting for lipid and diabetes tests in Calgary, Alberta from 2010 to 2016

Data presented in this data article include the proportion and counts of community-based adult men and women who fasted for various lipid and diabetes screening-related tests from January 2010 to June 2016 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. This data set was collected from Calgary Laboratory Service׳s Laboratory Information System, and included 3,003,667 testing encounters (1,447,720 testing encounters for men and 1,555,947 testing encounters for women) over the age of 18 years, who fasted for a lipid profile, lipid+random blood glucose (RBG), lipid+hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), lipid+RBG+HbA1c, lipid+fasting blood glucose (FBG), lipid+FBG+RBG, lipid+FBG+HbA1c, or lipid+FBG+RBG+HbA1c. Data are related to “Proportion of adults fasting for lipid testing relative to guideline changes in Alberta” (Ma et al., 2017).


Subject area
Medicine More specific subject area Laboratory Medicine; Family Medicine Type of data Tables How data were acquired Calgary Laboratory Services' Laboratory Information System Data format Raw, analyzed Experimental factors Time since last meal for each adult was documented and defined as Z 8 h since last meal prior to blood collection.

Experimental features
Counts and proportion (mean 7SD) of community-based men and women fasting for various lipid and diabetes screening test encounters each month in Calgary, Alberta, between January 2010 and June 2016.

Data source location
Calgary, Alberta, Canada Data accessibility Data are with this article

Related research article
This data article is submitted as a companion paper to the following research article: Ma, I., J. Viczko, and C. Naugler, Proportion of adults fasting for lipid testing relative to guideline changes in Alberta. Clin. Biochem, 2017. 50 (6): p. 344-346.

Value of the data
These data of community-based adults who fasted for a lipid profile test with or without various diabetes screening tests can be used in the development of future studies in the areas of diabetes and family medicine.
Data can be used to determine the laboratory utilization of laboratory test ordering practices by family physicians within Calgary, Alberta as well as provide as an example for other jurisdictions investigating their own laboratory utilization initiatives within Canada.
On a national and international level, these data can assist other jurisdictions as a basis for further study as they prepare their clinics to switch from fasting-required to fasting not-required for lipid profile tests.

Data
The data presented here include the proportion (Table 1) and counts (Tables 2 and 3) of community-based women and men who fasted for a lipid profile encounter with or without various diabetes-screening related tests, which was collected from Calgary Laboratory Services (CLS) Laboratory Information System. These data were collected to document the proportion of adults fasting for a lipid profile encounter relative to the lipid guideline changes in Alberta, Canada [1].

Experimental design, materials, and methods
The experimental design and methods have been described elsewhere [1]. Briefly, CLS is the sole supplier of laboratory services for Calgary and surrounding area in Alberta, Canada, performing on average 29 million tests per year for a population of approximately 1.4 million individuals. Nearly 99% of cholesterol tests processed by CLS are performed on community-based individuals, with the remaining 1% being performed on hospital-based patients.
For each month during the study period, the proportion of men and women fasting for the various lipid and diabetes screening-related tests was calculated by dividing the total number of individuals fasting (n) by the total number of individuals fasted that month (N). As documented in Table 1, the total mean 7 standard deviation (SD) was determined for each gender for the proportion of individuals fasting for each year (GraphPad Prism, version 6, San Diego, CA).