Racial-ethnic disparities in the association between risk factors and diabetes: The Northern Manhattan Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To identify risk factors (RF) for diabetes within a multiethnic cohort and to examine whether race-ethnicity modified their effects.

Methods

Participants in the Northern Manhattan Study without diabetes at baseline were studied from 1993 to 2014 (n=2430). Weibull regression models with interval censoring data were fit to calculate hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for incident diabetes. We tested for interactions between RF and race-ethnicity.

Results

During a mean follow-up period of 11years, there were 449 diagnoses of diabetes. Being non-Hispanic black (HR 1.69 95% CI 1.11-2.59) or Hispanic (HR 2.25 95% CI 1.48-3.40) versus non-Hispanic white, and body mass index (BMI; HR 1.34 per SD 95% CI 1.21-1.49) were associated with greater risk of diabetes;

SUBMITTER: Kulick ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4724287 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature