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- Title
Adolescent Obesity and Type Two Diabetes in Young Adults in the Minority Muslim Bedouin Population in Southern Israel.
- Authors
Treister-Goltzman, Yulia; Peleg, Roni
- Abstract
Minority populations suffer from adolescent obesity at increasing rates and develop diabetes type 2 at a younger age. To assess the prevalence of adolescent obesity in the minority Bedouin population of Israel and its association with obesity and diabetes type 2 during young adulthood. A retrospective cohort study, based on computerized medical records. The study cohort was comprised of Bedouin adolescents, born in 1988–1990, who had BMI measurements at ages 14–19 years in their medical records (N = 3310). The prevalence of obesity was 17.3% in middle adolescence, and 9.6% in late adolescence. The ORs for obesity in young adulthood were 30.1 (95% CI 19.1–49.3) and 40.9 (95% CI 25.7–69.1) for the middle and late adolescent groups, respectively. The incidence of diabetes type 2 per 105 person-years was 494.88 (95% CI 263.55–846.27) vs. 23.06 (95% CI 4.76–67.40) and 446.93 (95% CI 223.11–79 9.68) vs. 113.13 (95% CI 74.55–164.59) among adolescents with and without obesity in the middle and late adolescence groups, respectively. Interventions are needed to reduce the prevalence of adolescent obesity in the vulnerable Muslim Bedouin population in southern Israel.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; BEDOUINS; MINORITIES; CONFIDENCE intervals; CHILDHOOD obesity; RETROSPECTIVE studies; ACQUISITION of data; TYPE 2 diabetes; RISK assessment; MUSLIMS; DISEASE prevalence; MEDICAL records; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ELECTRONIC health records; BODY mass index; LONGITUDINAL method; DISEASE risk factors; DISEASE complications; ADULTS; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Journal of Community Health, 2023, Vol 48, Issue 3, p420
- ISSN
0094-5145
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10900-022-01178-1