Elevated Rates of Diabetes in Pacific Islanders and Asian Subgroups The Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE)

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  • ANDREW J. KARTER
  • HOWARD H. MOFFET
  • JENNIFER LIU
  • ALKA M. KANAYA
چکیده

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODSdThis prospective cohort analysis included 2,123,548 adult members of Kaiser Permanente Northern California, including 1,704,363 with known race/ethnicity (white, 56.9%; Latino, 14.9%; African American, 8.0%; Filipino, 4.9%; Chinese, 4.0%; multiracial, 2.8%; Japanese, 0.9%; Native American, 0.6%; Pacific Islander, 0.5%; South Asian, 0.4%; and Southeast Asian, Korean, and Vietnamese, 0.1% each). We calculated age-standardized (to the 2010 U.S. population) and sex-adjusted diabetes prevalence at baseline and incidence (during the 2010 calendar year). Poisson models were used to estimate relative risks (RRs).

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تاریخ انتشار 2012