title: Differences in diabetes mellitus onset for older Black, White, and Mexican Americans.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Our research examines the differences in estimated odds of developing diabetes mellitus for White, Black, and Mexican Americans age 51 and over for a period of 11 years.
  
  
  METHODS
  Longitudinal data came from 14,783 respondents of the Health and Retirement Study (1995-2006) who reported being diabetes-free at the first time period. Discrete-time survival models were used to analyze ethnic variations in the probability of developing diabetes.
  
  
  METHODS
  Estimated odds of developing diabetes mellitus.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The odds of newly diagnosed diabetes increased between 1995 and 2006, with 11% cumulative incidence for all study participants. The probability of incident diabetes among Black Americans was .01 during the period of 1995/96-1998, which increased to .03 during 1998-2000 and remained at .03 throughout subsequent periods, with cumulative incidence over the 11 years at 12%. In contrast, for Mexican Americans the probability more than doubled from .02 in 1995/ 96-1998 to .05 in 2004-2006, with cumulative incidence at 19%. White Americans had 11% cumulative incidence during the 11 year period.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Relative to White Americans, Mexican Americans had significantly elevated odds of developing diabetes throughout the 11-year period of observation even after controlling for differences in demographic, socioeconomic, and time-varying health characteristics.
authors.affiliation: Address correspondence to Ana R. Quiiones, PhD; Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239-3098, USA. quinones@ohsu.edu
authors.forename: Ana R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Quiñones
authors.forename: Jersey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ye
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D000368:Aged; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000208:ethnology*; D015438:Health Behavior; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D017058:Mexican Americans; D008875:Middle Aged; D015233:Models, Statistical; D016017:Odds Ratio; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D044465:White People
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