Racial and economic segregation and diabetes mortality in the USA, 2016-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The purpose of this study was to examine the association between racial and economic segregation and diabetes mortality among US counties from 2016 to 2020.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional ecological study that combined county-level diabetes mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System and sociodemographic information drawn from the 2016-2020 American Community Survey (n=2380 counties in the USA). Racialized economic segregation was measured using the Index Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) for income (ICE_income), race (ICE_race) and combined income and race (ICE_combined). ICE measures were categorised into quintiles, Q1 representing the highest concentration and Q5 the lowest concentration of low-income, non-Hi

SUBMITTER: Saelee R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11863818 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature