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Immigration to Israel during childhood is associated with diabetes at adolescence: a study of 2.7 million adolescents
- Source :
- Diabetologia. 60:2226-2230
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017.
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Abstract
- Immigration studies can shed light on diabetes pathogenesis and risk factors. To this end, we investigated the association between age at immigration and diabetes occurrence at adolescence among immigrants to Israel. We analysed cross-sectional data on 2,721,767 Jewish adolescents assessed for mandatory military service at approximately 17 years of age between 1967 and 2014. The study population comprised 430,176 immigrants with origins in Ethiopia, former USSR, Middle East and North Africa (ME/NA) and western countries. ORs for diabetes were calculated for men and women, grouped according to age at immigration, with Israel-born participants as controls. Unadjusted and fully adjusted models were made to account for possible confounders. Additionally, the study population was stratified by origin and each immigrant group was referenced to Israel-born participants of the same origin. There was a graded decrease in OR for diabetes across the study groups in the fully adjusted model. Immigrants arriving at age 0–5 years had comparable OR for diabetes to the Israeli-born reference group; those arriving at age 6–11 years had an OR of 0.82 (95% CI 0.70, 0.97; p = 0.017) and recent immigrants, arriving at age 12–19 years, had the lowest OR of 0.65 (95% CI 0.54, 0.77; p
- Subjects :
- Male
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
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Immigration
Ethnic group
030209 endocrinology & metabolism
Lower risk
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus
Prevalence
Internal Medicine
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Israel
Child
Reference group
media_common
business.industry
Confounding
Infant, Newborn
Infant
Environmental exposure
Emigration and Immigration
medicine.disease
Cross-Sectional Studies
Child, Preschool
Population study
Female
business
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14320428 and 0012186X
- Volume :
- 60
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Diabetologia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b7e2461a478b70160c938655978330d4