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. 2013 Summer;23(3):310-5.

Differences in diabetes mellitus onset for older Black, White, and Mexican Americans

Ana R Quiñones  1 , Jersey Liang, Wen Ye
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Differences in diabetes mellitus onset for older Black, White, and Mexican Americans

Ana R Quiñones et al. Ethn Dis. 2013 Summer.

Abstract

Objectives: Our research examines the differences in estimated odds of developing diabetes mellitus for White, Black, and Mexican Americans age 51 and over for a period of 11 years.

Design, setting, and participants: Longitudinal data came from 14,783 respondents of the Health and Retirement Study (1995-2006) who reported being diabetes-free at the first time period. Discrete-time survival models were used to analyze ethnic variations in the probability of developing diabetes.

Main outcome measure: Estimated odds of developing diabetes mellitus.

Results: The odds of newly diagnosed diabetes increased between 1995 and 2006, with 11% cumulative incidence for all study participants. The probability of incident diabetes among Black Americans was .01 during the period of 1995/96-1998, which increased to .03 during 1998-2000 and remained at .03 throughout subsequent periods, with cumulative incidence over the 11 years at 12%. In contrast, for Mexican Americans the probability more than doubled from .02 in 1995/ 96-1998 to .05 in 2004-2006, with cumulative incidence at 19%. White Americans had 11% cumulative incidence during the 11 year period.

Conclusions: Relative to White Americans, Mexican Americans had significantly elevated odds of developing diabetes throughout the 11-year period of observation even after controlling for differences in demographic, socioeconomic, and time-varying health characteristics.

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Conditional Probability of New Diabetes Diagnosis in Race/Ethnic-only Model (M1), HRS data 1995–2006
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Conditional Probability of New Diabetes Diagnosis in Time-Varying Health Adjusted Model (M3), HRS data 1995–2006† †Conditional hazard probabilities evaluated at zero change scores and the means of all other M3 covariates
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