The Zuni Indians of New Mexico are experiencing an epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD). The Zuni Pueblo created the Zuni Kidney Project (ZKP) to decrease the burden of CKD in the community. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of CKD among Zuni Indians using National ...

BACKGROUND: Body mass index (BMI) is widely used to assess risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Cut points for the classification of obesity (BMI >30 kg/m2) have been developed and validated among people of European descent. It is unknown whether these cut points are appropriate for non-European populations. ...

AIM: To determine the association between sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and obesity, diabetes and glucose intolerance among middle-aged men and women in Finland. METHODS: A multicentre, population-based, cross-sectional survey in Finland. A total of 1396 men and 1500 women aged 45-74 years participated in the survey between 2004 and 2005. The ...

BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes mellitus is an important risk factor for Alzheimer disease and is more prevalent in elderly minority persons compared with non-Hispanic white persons. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether diabetes is related to a higher risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a transitional stage between normal cognition and Alzheimer ...

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between serum selenium levels and the prevalence of diabetes among U.S. adults. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 8,876 adults > or =20 years of age who participated in the Third National Health and Nutrition ...

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and associated factors of cataract surgery among patients with type 2 diabetes in Kinmen, Taiwan. METHODS: A community-based population survey between 1991 and 1993 identified 971 patients over the age of 30 years with type 2 diabetes. In 1999, ...

To determine whether African-American adolescents have endothelial dysfunction compared with Caucasians and whether differences are a result of differences in insulin sensitivity calculated from total glucose (S(I)) or secretion. Thirty-three Caucasian (13.6 +/- 2.6 years of age; body mass index [BMI] 21.6 +/- 4.4 kg/m2 mean +/- SD) and 25 ...

We investigated the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and impaired fasting glycemia (IFG) and their risk factors in the urban population of Bangladesh. The study was carried out in Dhaka City Corporation with a population of 99,12,908 in 20,89,336 households distributed in 95 wards. Using a multistage cluster sampling, ...

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of diabetes has been increasing greatly, but WHO's predicted 39% rise in the global rate of diabetes from 2000 to 2030 might be an underestimate. We aimed to assess diabetes trends in Ontario, Canada. METHODS: Using population-based data, including a validated diabetes database from the province of ...

The number of reported cases of zygomycosis in patients with diabetes mellitus in developed countries has decreased since the 1990s, despite the rapid increase in the prevalence of diabetic patients in the Western world. Although prospective population-based studies need to better document this phenomenon, which may have a complex explanation, ...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of comorbid depression among people with type 2 diabetes using the integrated health database. METHODS: A total of 6543 people aged 18-65 years were selected from the employees of a Japanese corporation. Using the corporation's integrated health database, which consisted of medical claims data and ...

BACKGROUND: Dermoscopic classification of acquired melanocytic nevi (AMN) is based on the evaluation of 3 main criteria-global pattern, pigment distribution, and color. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether these features are different in AMN in white people with different skin types (STs) according to the Fitzpatrick classification. DESIGN: Digital dermoscopic images of ...

The rapid increase of diabetes prevalence in the US population and across all westernized world has been associated with environmental changes that promote obesity. However, studies conducted in various ethnic groups within the US population have pointed out differences in susceptibility to diabetes within the same environmental pressure. Of particular ...

AIMS: Information on the population at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes in the UK is scarce. We used data from the 1958 British birth cohort to estimate geographical and socio-economic variations in HbA(1c) in mid life. METHODS: Participants (n = 7799) born in England, Scotland and Wales and currently ...

Diabetes mellitus is a rapidly increasing and costly public health problem. Large studies are needed to understand the complex gene-environment interactions that lead to diabetes and its complications. The Marshfield Clinic Personalized Medicine Research Project (PMRP) represents one of the largest population-based DNA biobanks in the United States. As part ...

Prevalence and type of neoplastic disease were determined in 551 camelid submissions (368 alpacas [Lama pacos], 180 llamas [Lama glama], and 3 cases in which species was not identified) over a 5-year period. Forty neoplasms were identified in 38 animals (6.9%). Prevalence of neoplasia in llamas was higher (11%) than ...

OBJECTIVE: This study examines the cross-sectional association between prevalent rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and diabetes among noninstitutionalized US civilians aged >or= 60 years between 1988 and 1994. METHODS: Using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III data from the National Center for Health Statistics, RA and diabetes were identified using several ...

INTRODUCTION: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the major health problems worldwide. The aim of this study was to detect the prevalence of DM and its associated risk factors in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study was performed in 3 cities in the central part of Iran on participants ...

India leads the world with largest number of diabetic subjects earning the dubious distinction of being termed the "diabetes capital of the world". According to the Diabetes Atlas 2006 published by the International Diabetes Federation, the number of people with diabetes in India currently around 40.9 million is expected to ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: In this study we assessed the prevalence of diagnosed type 2 diabetes and the quality of care during the period 1988-2000 in an Italian population. METHODS AND RESULTS: Two population-based surveys, using similar methods and centralized measurements, were conducted in 1988 and 2000 in a representative Italian ...

The present study evaluated the prevalence of hypertension (HT) and its possible relationships with various risk factors in a representative sample (n=2884) of the adult population (>18 years old) of Galicia, a region of Spain. Subjects were selected by a two-step cluster sampling procedure from the Galician public health service ...

BACKGROUND: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and peripheral neuropathy (PN) are serious complications of diabetes, but early detection and intervention may reduce this morbidity. The degree to which PAD and PN develop before diabetes diagnosis has not been established among a representative sample of U.S. adults. OBJECTIVE: To compare the prevalence ...

Patients with schizophrenia are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease as a consequence of lifestyle habits, impaired access to health care, and, increasingly, due to metabolic side effects ostensibly attributed to second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs). There is little evidence, however, on the extent and temporal patterns of SGA-associated metabolic side effects. ...

AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Increasing diabetes prevalence has been reported in most European countries in the last 20 years. In this study we report on the development of prevalence and incidence of diabetes from 1972 to 2001 in Laxå, a rural community in central Sweden. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A diabetes register was established ...

Using a comprehensive database constructed from the pension files of US Civil War veterans, we explore characteristics and occurrence of type 2 diabetes among older black and white males, living circa 1900. We find that rates of diagnosed diabetes were much lower among males in this period than a century ...

AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: We examined incidence, prevalence and mortality from type 2 diabetes mellitus in a Scottish population over 12 years, and evaluated the effects on prevalence of increasing incidence and decreasing mortality. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We used a diabetes clinical information system in Tayside (population 387,908), Scotland, to identify new cases ...

India is experiencing an epidemic of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in young adults. This study reports the prevalence of glucose intolerance, and insulin profiles, and their relationship to lifestyle factors in 2218 young adults (aged 26-32 years; 997 urban, 1221 rural) in south India. They were drawn from a ...

<b>Aim:</b> The incidence and prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is rising at alarming rates in India. The North Indian Diabetes Study was launched to investigate the relative contributions of the risk factors to the susceptibility to T2DM among the Punjabi population in North India. <b> Methodology:</b> In this ...

CONTEXT: Hispanics in the United States have a higher prevalence of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (type 2 diabetes) and experience more complications for the disease than non-Hispanic whites. Differences in medical management or self-management practices may, in part, explain the relative high risk for diabetes complications among Hispanics. PURPOSE: Using data ...

The aims of this study were to obtain the most recent representative data for the prevalence of diabetes in adult populations in the World Health Organisation's South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions and to quantify the contribution of diabetes to the burden of mortality from cardiovascular diseases in these regions. ...

Familial combined hyperlipidemia (FCH) is closely related with metabolic syndrome (MetSyn), and coronary artery disease (CAD) is positively associated to MetSyn and FCH. In this study, we evaluated the prevalence of MetSyn and its components between patients with FCH and a control group. We also investigated the role of MetSyn ...

BACKGROUND: Motorization and supermarket-proliferation affect lifestyles. About 15 years ago, Okinawans went to several shops on foot, but now they go to supermarkets by car. The influences of these changes on the prevalence of diabetes are uncertain. OBJECTIVE AND MEASUREMENTS: The influence of motorization and supermarket-proliferation on the prevalence of ...

BACKGROUND: We report the prevalence of diabetes in a rural, multiethnic community in Hawaii, of predominantly Asian and Native Hawaiian ancestry, by using 1997 World Health Organization diagnostic criteria applied to a two-hour oral glucose tolerance test. METHODS: This cross-sectional survey included 1452 men and nonpregnant women who were >18 ...

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to summarize the data on the prevalence of type 1 diabetes mellitus among Lithuanian population aged more than 15 years. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The data on patients aged more than 16 years were collected with the help of general practitioners, endocrinologists, and physicians-internists ...

South Asians have high rates of diabetes and the highest rates of premature coronary artery disease in the world, both occurring about 10 years earlier than in other populations. The metabolic syndrome (MS), which appears to be the antecedent or "common soil" for both of these conditions, is also common ...

We analysed data from Aboriginal patients with type 2 diabetes recruited to the community-based Fremantle Diabetes Study and compared them with those from the Anglo-Celt participants. Diabetes prevalence among Aboriginal people in the Fremantle area was more than double that of Anglo-Celts and the average age at diagnosis was 14 ...

We investigated 77 patients (61 men, 16 women) with clinical signs of PAOD, without previous arterial intervention, using the color dupplex sonography and angiography. An average age was 63.5 +/- 11 years. We followed the risk factors of the atherosclerosis (smoking, diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, hyperlipidemia and obesity) and almost ...

BACKGROUND: U.S. Hispanics are at elevated risk of diabetes, and comorbid diabetes has been associated with poorer prognosis among patients with certain cancers. This study examined prevalence and predictors of comorbid diabetes in newly diagnosed Hispanic cancer patients in Connecticut. METHODS: For all Hispanic patients diagnosed (at age 10+ years) ...

This study examined the risk for alcoholism, diabetes, and depression (triADD) in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations in the U.S. Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a series of descriptive statistics and regression models were used to examine the interrelationships among these disorders in AI/AN populations. Despite a small ...

The prevalence of diabetes is rising rapidly in all developing countries and India already has the largest number of people with diabetes. Evidence for the rising prevalence of diabetes in India comes from recent population-based studies such as the Chennai Urban Population Study (n = 1,262) and the Chennai Urban ...

AIM: To estimate the prevalence of new and known diabetes mellitus, impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), and impaired fasting glucose (IFG) by ethnic group in Auckland. METHODS: The Diabetes Heart and Health Survey (DHAH) was a cross-sectional population based survey and was carried out in Auckland between January 2002 and December ...

BACKGROUND: Studies derived from continuous national surveys have shown that the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes mellitus in the US is increasing. This study estimated the prevalence in 2004 of self-reported diagnosis of diabetes and other conditions in a community-based population, using data from the Study to Help Improve Early evaluation ...

BACKGROUND: Migrant studies in France revealed that Mediterranean migrant men have lower mortality and morbidity than local-born populations for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). We studied overweight and NCDs among Tunisian migrants compared to the population of the host country and to the population of their country of origin. We also studied ...

BACKGROUND: Diabetes prevalence increases globally with severe consequences for afflicted individuals and societies. Data on diabetes incidence and diabetes related mortality on a population level are, however, scarce. As an alternative to dedicated studies it has been suggested to use pharmacoepidemiological databases that are readily available, at least in the ...

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major cause of mortality in developing countries, and in these countries diabetes prevalence is increasing rapidly. Diabetes increases the risk of TB. Our aim was to assess the potential impact of diabetes as a risk factor for incident pulmonary tuberculosis, using India as an example. ...

BACKGROUND: The evidence for a "diabesity" epidemic is accumulating worldwide but population-based data are still scarce in the African region. We assessed the prevalence, awareness and control of diabetes (DM) in the Seychelles, a rapidly developing country in the African region. We also examined the relationship between body mass index, ...

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of diabetes in North American is recognized to be higher in Aboriginal populations. The relative magnitude of health care utilization and expenditures between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations is uncertain, however. Our objective was to compare health care utilization and per capita expenditures according to Registered Indian and ...

BACKGROUND: Dupuytren's disease (DD) is a hand disorder mainly among the northern population. In contrast it is rare in the mediterranean population. Therefore typical habits and dietetic influences have been discussed as well as genetic predisposition. Still, since the first description by Dupuytren in 1834 only little is known about ...

AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: To estimate the prevalence and incidence of diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose regulation (IGR) in a Chinese population aged 20-94 years. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: A group of 5,628 randomly selected adults, aged 20-94 years, living in the Huayang and Caoyang communities in Shanghai, China, were investigated between 1998 and ...

This review of the literature on vulnerable populations with diabetes identifies trends, summarizes major findings, and recommends strategies to fill gaps in the state of the science. For the purposes of this article "vulnerable populations" refers to members of diverse racial and ethnic groups, people of low-income, and those who ...