Nutritional determinants of worldwide diabetes: an econometric study of food markets and diabetes prevalence in 173 countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Ageing and urbanization leading to sedentary lifestyles have been the major explanations proposed for a dramatic rise in diabetes worldwide and have been the variables used to predict future diabetes rates. However, a transition to Western diets has been suggested as an alternative driver. We sought to determine what socio-economic and dietary factors are the most significant population-level contributors to diabetes prevalence rates internationally.

Design

Multivariate regression models were used to study how market sizes of major food products (sugars, cereals, vegetable oils, meats, total joules) corresponded to diabetes prevalence, incorporating lagged and cumulative effects. The underlying social determinants of food market sizes and diabetes prevalence rates

SUBMITTER: Basu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10271466 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature