Diabetes among Ethiopian Immigrants to Israel: Exploring the Effects of Migration and Ethnicity on Diabetes Risk.

OBJECTIVE:Diabetes prevalence among ethnic minorities and immigrants often differs from the majority indigenous population. We compared diabetes prevalence, incidence and risk among Ethiopian and non-Ethiopian Jews. Within these main groups, we controlled for the effect of migration on diabetes risk...

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Main Authors: Anat Jaffe, Shmuel Giveon, Liat Wulffhart, Bernice Oberman, Laurence Freedman, Arnona Ziv, Ofra Kalter-Leibovici
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4907509?pdf=render