Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-16

High prevalence of diabetes among immigrants from non-European countries in Sweden (Article)

Wändell P.E.* , Gåfvels C.
  • a Center for Family and Community Medicine Stockholm, Karolinska Institutet, Alfred Nobels allé 12, SE-141 83 Huddinge, Sweden
  • b Center for Family and Community Medicine Stockholm, Karolinska Institutet, Alfred Nobels allé 12, SE-141 83 Huddinge, Sweden

Abstract

Patients with diabetes aged 35-64 years from four primary health care centres in Stockholm County were identified from electronic patient records (EPRs): diabetes prevalence occurred 414 of 15,317 men, and 250 of 15,388 women. The age- and sex-standardized prevalence of diabetes was as follows: Non-European immigrants, 5.82% (95% CI 5.06-6.58), European immigrants 1.96% (95% CI 1.53-2.39), and Swedish-born subjects 1.80% (95% CI 1.63-1.97). In conclusion, non-European immigrants showed a three-fold higher prevalence of diabetes compared to Swedish-born subjects. © 2006.

Author Keywords

Primary care immigrants Sweden Diabetes mellitus Prevalence

Index Keywords

diabetes mellitus Sex Factors male female sex difference risk factor Sweden Risk Factors Emigration and Immigration Humans ethnology prevalence Article middle aged human adult migration statistics
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-34247263712&doi=10.1016%2fj.pcd.2006.06.001&partnerID=40&md5=9527de7cfb27c337d9e48155b2867dd2
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcd.2006.06.001
ISSN: 17519918
Cited by: 21
Original Language: English