The prevalence of diabetes, hypertension and obesity among immigrants from East Africa and the former Soviet Union: A retrospective comparative 30-year cohort study

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Reuven, Yonatan ^a   Dreiher, Jacob ^a,b   Shvartzman, Pesach ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES   (Israel)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Cardiovascular risk factors; Diabetes; East African immigrants; Ethiopian immigrants; Ethnicity; Former Soviet Union immigrants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ETHIOPIAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMIGRANT; ISRAELI; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUSSIAN (PEOPLE); AFRICA; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; USSR;

ADULT; AFRICA, EASTERN; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; USSR;

EID: 84965017989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12933-016-0392-7     Document Type: Article

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