Adult Arabs have higher risk for diabetes mellitus than Jews in Israel

Anat Jaffe, Shmuel Giveon, Liat Wulffhart, Bernice Oberman, Maslama Baidousi, Arnona Ziv and Ofra Kalter-Leibovici

PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-9

Abstract: Objective: Diabetes mellitus is an emerging epidemic in the Arab world. Although high diabetes prevalence is documented in Israeli Arabs, information from cohort studies is scant. Methods: This is a population study, based on information derived between 2007–2011, from the electronic database of the largest health fund in Israel, among Arabs and Jews. Prevalence, 4-year-incidence and diabetes hazard ratios [HRs], adjusted for sex and the metabolic-syndrome [MetS]-components, were determined in 3 age groups (

Date: 2017
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