Elsie J. Wang|Eric C. Wong|Anjali A. Dixit|Stephen P. Fortmann|Randolph B. Linde|Latha Palaniappan
Type 2 diabetes: Identifying high risk Asian American subgroups in a clinical population
Palo Alto Institute|Palo Alto Institute|Columbia University|Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research|Palo Alto Institute
compared prevalence treatment type 2 diabetes across asian american subgroups asian indian chinese filipino japanese korean vietnamese nonhispanic whites nhws northern california healthcare systema threeyear crosssectional sample patient electronic health records accessed compare diabetes prevalence 21816 asian 73728 nhws aged 35 years diabetes classified icd9 codes abnormal laboratory values use oral antidiabetic medication multivariate adjusted prevalence rates asian subgroup adjusted odds ratios relative nhws comparedageadjusted prevalence ranged 58 182 women 81 253 men ageadjusted ors asian subgroups ranged 111394 women 114456 men odds diabetes significantly higher asian indians women 344 men 354 filipinos women 394 men 456 compared nhws results asian indians filipinos similar ageandbmi adjustment treatment rates across subgroups 597820 women 629794 menheterogeneity exists prevalence diabetes across asian subgroups independent obesity prevalence asian indian filipino subgroups particularly high prevalence diabetes compared nhws future studies explore clinically important differences among asian subgroups