Cardiometabolic health in Asians with diabetes in the US.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Asians develop diabetes at lower levels of adiposity than people of other race/ethnicities. However, there is limited data investigating the health of US Asians with diabetes. We compared cardiovascular risk factors in US Asians to other race/ethnicities stratified by diabetes status.

Methods

Among 4645 adults in the 2011-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a cross-sectional survey of the US population, odds ratios were calculated for obesity, hypertension, and elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol associated with race/ethnicity after adjustment for age, sex, income, education, smoking, alcohol consumption, and health insurance.

Results

Overall and stratified by diabetes status, non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks, an

SUBMITTER: Menke A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5714299 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature