Quantifying the contribution of 31 risk factors to the increasing prevalence of diabetes among US adults, 2005-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

No study has comprehensively quantified the individual and collective contributions of various risk factors to the growing burden of diabetes in the United States.

Methods

This study aimed to determine the extent to which an increase in the prevalence of diabetes was related to concurrent changes in the distribution of diabetes-related risk factors among US adults (aged 20 years or above and not pregnant). Seven cycles of series of cross-sectional National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data between 2005-2006 and 2017-2018 were included. The exposures were survey cycles and seven domains of risk factors, including genetic, demographic, social determinants of health, lifestyle, obesity, biological, and psychosocial domains. Using Poisson regressions, per

SUBMITTER: Huang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10192628 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature