Rising Prediabetes, Undiagnosed Diabetes, and Risk Factors in Young Women.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Women of reproductive age are less prone to cardiovascular disease than men. However, diabetes mellitus negates this female advantage. The prevalence change of prediabetes (prediabetes mellitus) and diabetes mellitus and diabetes mellitus‒associated cardiovascular risk factors have not been clearly described in women before menopause.

Methods

Using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data (1999-2018), this study estimated the age-adjusted prevalence of prediabetes mellitus (2005-2018), diagnosed diabetes mellitus, and undiagnosed diabetes mellitus in premenopausal women. Logistic regression was used to examine cardiovascular risk factors, including obesity, central obesity, hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, and hypertriglyceridemia, associated wit

SUBMITTER: Yoshida Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9974837 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature