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Adult Arabs have higher risk for diabetes mellitus than Jews in Israel

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  • Anat Jaffe
  • Shmuel Giveon
  • Liat Wulffhart
  • Bernice Oberman
  • Maslama Baidousi
  • Arnona Ziv
  • Ofra Kalter-Leibovici

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Objective: Diabetes mellitus is an emerging epidemic in the Arab world. Although high diabetes prevalence is documented in Israeli Arabs, information from cohort studies is scant. Methods: This is a population study, based on information derived between 2007–2011, from the electronic database of the largest health fund in Israel, among Arabs and Jews. Prevalence, 4-year-incidence and diabetes hazard ratios [HRs], adjusted for sex and the metabolic-syndrome [MetS]-components, were determined in 3 age groups (

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  • Anat Jaffe & Shmuel Giveon & Liat Wulffhart & Bernice Oberman & Maslama Baidousi & Arnona Ziv & Ofra Kalter-Leibovici, 2017. "Adult Arabs have higher risk for diabetes mellitus than Jews in Israel," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(5), pages 1-9, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0176661
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176661
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