| Title: | Men across a range of ethnicities have a higher prevalence of diabetes: findings from a cross-sectional study of 500 000 UK Biobank participants |
| Journal: | Diabetic Medicine |
| Published: | 10 Dec 2017 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29171078/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.13551 |
| URL: | https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/152628/7/152628.pdf |
Publication 8503
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Abstract
AIMS: Studies show that white men have a higher prevalence of Type 2 diabetes mellitus than women at a given age and BMI, but equivalent standardized data for other ethnic groups in the UK are sparse.</p>
METHODS: This cross-sectional study analysed UK Biobank data from 489 079 participants to compare the prevalence of diabetes mellitus across four major ethnic groups including: 471 700 (96.4%) white, 7871 (1.6%) South Asian, 7974 (1.6%) black and 1534 (0.3%) Chinese participants, before and after standardizing for age, socio-economic status (SES), BMI and lifestyle factors including physical activity, TV viewing, fruit and vegetable intake, processed meat, red meat, oily fish, alcohol intake and smoking. A subgroup analysis of South Asians was also undertaken.</p>
RESULTS: Crude diabetes prevalence was higher in men across all four ethnicities. After standardizing for age, SES, BMI and lifestyle factors, a significant sex difference in diabetes prevalence persisted in white (men 6.0% vs. women 3.6%), South Asian (21.0% vs. 13.8%) and black individuals (13.3% vs. 9.7%) (P < 0.0001); there was a non-significant difference between Chinese men and women (7.1% vs. 5.5%) (P = 0.211). Sex differences persisted across South Asian subgroups.</p>
CONCLUSIONS: Men across a range of major ethnic groups including white, South Asian and black, have a higher prevalence of diabetes compared with women of similar age, BMI, SES and lifestyle in the UK.</p>
7 Authors
- L. D. Ferguson
- U. E. Ntuk
- C. Celis-Morales
- D. F. Mackay
- J. P. Pell
- J. M. R. Gill
- N. Sattar
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