Diabetes and pre-diabetes among adults reaching health centers in Luanda, Angola: prevalence and associated factors.

ABSTRACT: With the lack of surveys, surveillance program and/or statistical data, epidemiologic studies can provide a better understanding of diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa. This was a cross-sectional survey to determine prevalence of diabetes and impaired fasting glucose (IFG) among adults attending six health centres in six different districts of Luanda (Angola) during August-November 2018, followed by a case-control study to assess the risk factors for IFG and diabetes in a subgroup of subjects not receiving treatment for diabetes. Factors associated with diabetes/IFG were assessed using a generalized ordered logit model and the effects were expressed as odds ratios (OR₁ for IFG/diabetes vs. no IFG/diabetes; OR₂ for diabetes vs. no diabetes) with 95% CI (confidence interval)

SUBMITTER: Robbiati C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7067759 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature