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Disparities in Self-Reported Diabetes Mellitus among Arab, Chaldean, and Black Americans in Southeast Michigan

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Diabetes mellitus is an important public health problem that disproportionately affects minorities. Using a cross sectional, convenience sample, we estimated the prevalence of self-reported diabetes for Whites (n = 212), Arabs (n = 1,303), Chaldeans (n = 828), and Blacks (n = 789) in southeast Michigan. In addition, using a logistic regression model, we estimated odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the association between ethnicity and diabetes before and after adjusting for demographic, socioeconomic status, health care, chronic conditions, and health behavior variables. The overall age- and sex-adjusted prevalence of diabetes was 7.0%. Estimates were highest for Blacks (8.0%) followed by Arabs and Whites (7.0% for each group) and Chaldeans (6.0%). In the fully adjusted model, the association between ethnicity and diabetes was not statistically significant. Future studies should collect more detailed socioeconomic status, acculturation and health behavior information, which are factors that may affect the relationship between race/ethnicity and diabetes.

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The ACC research team would like to recognize and thank all Arab American and Chaldean Council staff and community members (Dr. Evone Barkho and Nuha Jamil) for volunteering their time in collecting and entering the data.

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  1. Arab American & Chaldean Council, 28551 Southfield Road, Lathrup Village, MI, 48076, USA

    Hikmet Jamil, Monty Fakhouri, Radwan Khoury & Haifa Fakhouri

  2. Department of Family Medicine & Public Health Sciences, Wayne State University, 3800 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI, 48201, USA

    Hikmet Jamil

  3. School of Public Health, Dallas Regional Campus, University of Texas, 6011 Harry Hines Blvd., V8.112, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA

    Florence Dallo

  4. College of Nursing, Wayne State University, 5557 Cass Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48202, USA

    Thomas Templin

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Jamil, H., Fakhouri, M., Dallo, F. et al. Disparities in Self-Reported Diabetes Mellitus among Arab, Chaldean, and Black Americans in Southeast Michigan. J Immigrant Minority Health 10, 397–405 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-007-9108-0

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