Diabetes prevalence and body mass index differ by ethnicity: the Multiethnic Cohort.

Maskarinec, Gertraud; Grandinetti, Andrew; Matsuura, Grace; Sharma, Sangita; Mau, Marjorie; Henderson, Brian E; Kolonel, Laurence N

Diabetes prevalence and body mass index differ by ethnicity: the Multiethnic Cohort.

Publication or External Link

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702477/?tool=pubmed

Date

2009

Authors

Citation

Maskarinec, Gertraud and Grandinetti, Andrew and Matsuura, Grace and Sharma, Sangita and Mau, Marjorie and Henderson, Brian E and Kolonel, Laurence N (2009) Diabetes prevalence and body mass index differ by ethnicity: the Multiethnic Cohort. Ethnicity & disease, 19 (1). pp. 49-55.

DRUM DOI

https://doi.org/10.13016/losn-ffii

Abstract

Ethnic differences in the prevalence of diabetes persisted after stratification by BMI. The prevalence of diabetes was at least two-fold higher in all ethnic groups than among Caucasians.