Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the Japanese-Brazilian community of Mombuca, Guatapará, SP

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade,Regina Célia Garcia de
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Figueiredo,Roberta Carvalho de, Foss-Freitas,Maria Cristina, Pace,Ana Emília, Dal Fabbro,Amaury Lelis, Franco,Laércio Joel, Foss,Milton César
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia & Metabologia (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-27302011000200005
• topic: Prevalence; diabetes mellitus; impaired glucose tolerance; Japanese Brazilians; cardiovascular risk factors

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) in the Japanese-Brazilian community of Mombuca in relation to risk factors (FR) for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Cross-sectional study with 131 individuals of Japanese ancestry (69% first generation), aged 20 years or more, submitted to socio-cultural, anthropometric, and biochemistry evaluation. RESULTS: Of the individuals studied (n = 131, age = 55.1 ± 15.9 years), 58.8% were women. The prevalence of DM2 and IGT were 13.7% and 14.5%, respectively. Regarding RF, 76.3% presented dyslipidemia, 52.7% abdominal obesity, 48.1% arterial hypertension, and 42.3% whole body obesity. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of DM2, IGT, and RF in this Japanese-Brazilian community was higher than in the adult population of the city of Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brazil, suggesting an increase in risk conditions for these morbidities.