Asian Americans: Diabetes Prevalence Across U.S. and World Health Organization Weight Classifications

Oza-Frank, Reena; Ali, Mohammed K.; Vaccarino, Viola; Narayan, K.M. Venkat

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Asian Americans: Diabetes Prevalence Across U.S. and World Health Organization Weight Classifications

Published Date:

Jun 09 2009

Publisher's site:

http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc09-0573 New Site Icon

Source:

Diabetes Care. 32(9):1644-1646.

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Personal Authors:

Oza-Frank, Reena ; Ali, Mohammed K. ; Vaccarino, Viola ; Narayan, K.M. Venkat ;

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Pubmed ID:

19509010

Pubmed Central ID:

PMC2732150

Description:

OBJECTIVE

To compare diabetes prevalence among Asian Americans by World Health Organization and U.S. BMI classifications.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

Data on Asian American adults (n = 7,414) from the National Health Interview Survey for 1997–2005 were analyzed. Diabetes prevalence was estimated across weight and ethnic group strata.

RESULTS

Regardless of BMI classification, Asian Indians and Filipinos had the highest prevalence of overweight (34–47 and 35–47%, respectively, compared with 20–38% in Chinese; P < 0.05). Asian Indians also had the highest ethnic-specific diabetes prevalence (ranging from 6–7% among the normal weight to 19–33% among the obese) compared with non-Hispanic whites: odds ratio (95% CI) for Asian Indians 2.0 (1.5–2.6), adjusted for age and sex, and 3.1 (2.4–4.0) with additional adjustment for BMI.

CONCLUSIONS

Asian Indian ethnicity, but not other Asian ethnicities, was strongly associated with diabetes. Weight classification as a marker of diabetes risk may need to accommodate differences across Asian subgroups.

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Journal Article

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Emerging Infectious Diseases

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1R36SH000008-01/SH/NCHS CDC HHS/United States

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