Abnormal glucose tolerance and other coronary heart disease risk factors in an isolated aboriginal community in central Australia

Diabetes Care

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1269-1273

  Gault, Andrew ^a   O'Dea, Kerin ^a   Rowley, Kevin G ^a   Mcleay, Toby ^b   Traianedes, Kathy ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Urapuntja Health Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SMOKING;

EID: 0029855192     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.19.11.1269     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. O'Dea K, White NG, Sinclair AJ: An investigation of nutrition-related risk factors in an isolated Aboriginal community in Northern Australia: advantages of a traditionally-oriented life-style. Med J Aust 148:177-180,1988
2. O'Dea K: Diabetes in Australian Aborigines: impact of the western diet and lifestyle.; M Med 232:103-117,1992
3. Knowler WC, Pettit DJ, Saad MF, Bennet PW: Diabetes mellitus in the Pima Indians: incidence, risk factors and pathogenesis. Diabetes Metab Rev 6:1-27,1990
4. Zimmet P, Dowse G, Finch C, Sargentson S, King H: The epidemiology and natural history of NIDDM: lessons from the South Pacific. Diabetes Metab Rev 6:91-124,1990
5. Dowse GK, Gareeboo H, Zimmet P, Alberti KGMM, Tuomilehto J, Fareed D, Brissonette LG, Finch CF: High prevalence of NIDDM and impaired glucose tolerance in Indian, Creole, and Chinese Mauritians. Diabetes 39:390-396,1990
6. Lee AJ: Summary of nutrition report. In Umpuntja Health Sen-ice Health Survey. Alice Springs, NT, Australia, Urapuntja Health Service Aboriginal Corporation, 1990, p. 39-41
7. O'Dea K, Patel M, Kubisch D, Hopper J, Traianedes K: Obesity, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia in a Central Australian Aboriginal community with a long history of acculturation. Diabetes Care 16:1004-1010,1993
8. Glatthaar C, Welbom TA, Stenhouse NS, Garcia-Webb P: Diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance: a prevalence estimate based on the Busselton 1981 survey. Med J Aust 143:436-440,1985
9. Weiner K: The diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, including gestational diabetes. Ann Clin Biochem 29:481-493, 1992
10. Risk Factor Prevalence Study Management Committee: Risk factor prevalence study, Survey No. 3. Canberra, National Heart Foundation of Australia and Australian Institute of Health, 1990
11. McCance DR, Hanson RL, Charles M-A, Jacobsson LTH, Pettitt DJ, Bennett PH, Knowler WC: Comparison of tests for glycated haemoglobin and fasting and two hour plasma glucose concentrations as diagnostic methods for diabetes. BMJ 308:1323-1328,1994
12. Jarrett RJ: Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease-chicken, egg or neither? Diabetologia 26:99-102,1984
13. Reaven GM: Resistance to insulin-stimulated glucose uptake and hyperinsulinemia: role in non-insulin-dependent diabetes, high blood pressure, dyslipidemia and coronary heart disease. Diabete Metab 17:78-86, 1991
14. Rett K, Wicklmayr M, Mehnert H: What is the clinical significance of insulin resistance? J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 20 (Suppl. 11):S22-S26,1992
15. Wajchenberg BL, Malerbi DA, Rocha MS, Lerario RA, Santomauro TMG: Syndrome X: a syndrome of insulin resistance: epidemiological and clinical evidence. Diabetes Metab Rev 10:19-29, 1994
16. O'Dea K, Lion RJ, Lee A, Trainanedes K, Hopper JL, Rae C: Diabetes, hyperinsulinemia and hyperlipidemia in a small Aboriginal community in Northern Australia. Diabetes Care 13:830-835, 1990
17. Gotto AM: Hypertriglyceridemia: risks and perspectives. Am J Cardiol 70:19H-25H, 1992
18. Simons LA: Triglycéride levels and the risk of coronary artery disease: a view from Australia. Am] Cardiol 70:14H-18H, 1992