title: Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the Japanese-Brazilian community of Mombuca, Guatapará, SP.
abstract: 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.
  
  
  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.
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil. randrade@fcfrp.usp.br
authors.forename: Regina Célia Garcia de
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Andrade
authors.forename: Roberta Carvalho de
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Figueiredo
authors.forename: Maria Cristina
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Foss-Freitas
authors.forename: Ana Emília
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Pace
authors.forename: Amaury Lelis
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Dal Fabbro
authors.forename: Laércio Joel
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Franco
authors.forename: Milton César
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Foss
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000886:Anthropometry; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D005951:Glucose Tolerance Test; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000208:ethnology; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population