Prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among employed U.S. adults by demographic characteristics and occupation, 36 states, 2014–2018

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• Alternative Title:
  J Occup Environ Med
• Personal Author:
  Shockey, Taylor M. ; Tsai, Rebecca J. ; Cho, Pyone
• Description:
  Objective:
  
  To assess the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among employed U.S. adults from 36 states by occupation group using data from 2014–2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
  
  Methods:
  
  Prevalence of diabetes was calculated by 22 broad and 93 detailed occupation groups among a sample of 366,633 employed respondents. Wald chi-square values were used to determine the significance of associations between diabetes and occupation groups after adjusting for sex, age, and race/ethnicity.
  
  Results:
  
  The prevalence of diabetes was 6.4% among employed U.S. adults. The three broad occupation groups with the highest adjusted prevalence of diabetes were protective services (8.9%), farming, fishing, and forestry (8.8%), and community and social services (8.4%).
  
  Conclusions:
  
  Prevalence of diabetes differed by occupation. Work-related factors (e.g. shift work, job stress) should be further examined in relation to risk of developing diabetes.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adult Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Diabetes Mellitus Ethnicity Humans Occupations Prevalence
• Source:
  J Occup Environ Med. 63(4):302-310
• Pubmed ID:
  33350659
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8669571
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  63
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:2e880a34338053865780acb9e5c881c031dfb7cec371e4765f23a56b84f73256
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/112559/cdc_112559_DS1.pdf
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