title: The Prevalence of Self-Reported Diabetes in the Australian National Eye Health Survey.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To present the prevalence of self-reported diabetes in Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants in the National Eye Health Survey.
  
  
  METHODS
  3098 non-Indigenous Australians aged 50-98 years and 1738 Indigenous Australians aged 40-92 years were examined in 30 randomly selected sites, stratified by remoteness. A history of diabetes was obtained using an interviewer-administered questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  13.91% (431/3098) of non-Indigenous Australians and 37.11% (645/1738) of Indigenous Australians had self-reported diabetes. The age-adjusted prevalence of self-reported diabetes for non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians was 11.49% and 43.77%, respectively (p <0.001). The prevalence of self-reported diabetes increased markedly with age (OR = 1.04 per year, p = 0.017). Indigenous Australians living in very remote areas were more likely to have self-reported diabetes than those in major city areas (OR = 1.61, p = 0.038).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The prevalence of self-reported diabetes in Australia was high, with the prevalence being almost 4 times higher in Indigenous Australians compared with non-Indigenous Australians. With the prevalence of diabetes likely to increase, the results of this national survey may inform future policy, planning and funding allocation to assist in controlling the diabetes epidemic.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Stuart
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Keel
authors.affiliation: Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.|Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne, Department of Surgery, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3685-4054
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Foreman
authors.affiliation: Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.affiliation: Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.|Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne, Department of Surgery, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: van Wijngaarden
authors.affiliation: Indigenous Eye Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Hugh R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.affiliation: Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dirani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D003710:Demography; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005123:Eye / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D057566:Self Report