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Diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in Mongolian population, Inner Mongolia, China
Shaoyan Zhang1, Weijun Tong, Tan Xu
1Department of Epidemiology, Soochow University School of Radiation Medicine and Public Health, Industrial Park District, Suzhou 215123, China.
Aims:
The aims of this study is to assess the prevalence of diabetes and IFG and compare the risk factors between diabetes and IFG in the Mongolian population, China.
Methods:
Data on demographic characteristics, lifestyle risk factors, family history of hypertension, medical history and fasting plasma glucose were obtained and analyzed for all individuals.
Results:
Total 2589 Mongolians aged 20 years or more were recruited as study subjects. The overall prevalence of diabetes and IFG was 3.7% (males 3.9%; females 3.5%) and 18.5% (males 17.7%; females 19.0%), respectively. Multivariate logistic analysis showed that diabetes was significantly associated with age (odds ratio: 1.26), overweight (1.86), high triglycerides (1.96), family history of hypertension (1.86), heart rate (1.05) and high C-reactive protein (3.59), and IFG significantly associated with age (odds ratio: 1.11), low high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (1.80), family history of hypertension (1.60), heart rate (1.03) and high C-reactive protein (2.73).
Conclusions:
IFG were common among Mongolian people living in the northeast of China. IFG has partly same risk factors as diabetes, and prevalence of some cardiovascular risk factors and number of risk factor in diabetes were higher than that in IFG.
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