Case Finding and Medical Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes among Different Ethnic Minority Groups: The HELIUS Study

Table 2

Ethnic differences in the prevalence of diabetes^† by sex, adjusted for age.

	Men				Women
	n/N	%	OR	95% CI	n/N	%	OR	95% CI
Dutch	105/2080	5.0	1.0 (ref)		58/2461	2.4	1.0 (ref)
South-Asian Surinamese	293/1364	21.5	8.0	6.3–10.4	296/1668	17.7	12.2	9.0–16.5
African Surinamese	183/1598	11.5	2.6	2.0–3.4	303/2511	12.1	6.5	4.8–8.7
Ghanaian	134/901	14.9	4.6	3.5–6.1	136/1422	9.6	8.9	6.4–12.4
Turkish	183/1624	11.3	5.3	4.1–7.0	183/1967	9.3	10.5	7.6–14.5
Moroccan	181/1505	12.0	4.8	3.7–6.3	258/2124	10.8	12.3	9.0–16.7

^†Diabetes based on self-report, fasting glucose ≥ 7 mmol/l, and/or use of glucose-lowering medication.