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Mehwish Nisar1, Riaz Uddin2, Tracy Kolbe-Alexander3
1School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Aims:
The purpose of this study is systematically to review and synthesise available prevalence data of major chronic diseases in international immigrants.
Methods:
Four electronic databases were searched to retrieve peer-reviewed original articles published in English between January 2000 and December 2020. Cross-sectional, cohort, or longitudinal studies that reported the prevalence of cardiovascular disease, any type of cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and type 2 diabetes among immigrant adults were included. We calculated pooled prevalence using random-effects meta-analyses.
Results:
Of 13,363 articles retrieved, 24 met the eligibility criteria. The pooled prevalence of diabetes was 9.0% (95% confidence interval (CI) 7.6-10.4) with a higher prevalence in North American countries 11.1% (95% CI 8.0-14.1) than in the other destination countries: 6.6% (95% CI 5.1-8.1) including Italy, Sweden, The Netherlands, Australia, and Israel. The pooled prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases was 7.7% (95% CI 5.7-9.6) and 6.5% (95% CI 2.3-10.7), respectively. Only two articles reported the prevalence of cancers (2.7% and 3.8%). We found high heterogeneity among all studies regardless of the disease.
Conclusions:
The prevalence of diabetes was higher than other chronic diseases in international immigrants. There is a strong need to enhance health information systems to understand the magnitude of chronic diseases among different immigrant subgroups.
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