Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 13-16, February 2007

High prevalence of diabetes among immigrants from non-European countries in Sweden

Center for Family and Community Medicine Stockholm, Karolinska Institutet, Alfred Nobels allé 12, SE-141 83 Huddinge, Sweden

Received 10 March 2006; received in revised form 19 May 2006; accepted 14 June 2006. published online 22 December 2006.

Abstract 

Patients with diabetes aged 35–64 years from four primary health care centres in Stockholm County were identified from electronic patient records (EPRs): diabetes prevalence occurred 414 of 15,317 men, and 250 of 15,388 women. The age- and sex-standardized prevalence of diabetes was as follows: Non-European immigrants, 5.82% (95% CI 5.06–6.58), European immigrants 1.96% (95% CI 1.53–2.39), and Swedish-born subjects 1.80% (95% CI 1.63–1.97). In conclusion, non-European immigrants showed a three-fold higher prevalence of diabetes compared to Swedish-born subjects.

Keywords: Diabetes mellitus, Immigrants, Prevalence, Primary care, Sweden

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PII: S1751-9918(06)00002-7

doi:10.1016/j.pcd.2006.06.001

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 13-16, February 2007

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