Center for Primary Health Care Research, Region Skåne, Lund University, Sweden, UMAS, 205 02 Malmö, Sweden.
Cardiovasc Diabetol. 2009 Nov 12;8:59. doi: 10.1186/1475-2840-8-59.
A large number of people throughout the world have diabetes and the prevalence is increasing. Persons with diabetes have a twice higher risk of cardiovascular disease than those without diabetes. There is a lack of studies focusing on cardiovascular risk factors in Assyrians/Syrians with type 2 diabetes. The aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence of some cardiovascular risk factors among Assyrians/Syrians and native Swedes with type 2 diabetes and to study whether the association between ethnicity and cardio-vascular risk factors remains after adjustment for age, gender, employment status and housing tenure.
In the Swedish town of Södertälje 173 Assyrians/Syrians and 181 ethnic Swedes with type 2 diabetes participated in a study evaluating cardiovascular risk factors such as increased haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), high blood lipids (total serum cholesterol and triglycerides), hypertension and high urinary albumin. The associations between the outcome variables and sociodemographic characteristics were estimated using unconditional logistic regression.
The prevalence of increased triglycerides in Swedish-born subjects and Assyrian-Syrians was 61.5% and 39.7% respectively. Swedes had a prevalence of hypertension 76.8% compared to 57.8% in Assyrians/Syrians. In the final logistic models adjusted for gender, age, housing and employment the odds ratio (OR) for Swedish-born subjects for increased triglycerides was 2.80 (95% CI1.61-4.87) and for hypertension 2.32 (95% CI 1.35-4.00) compared to Assyrians-Syrians.
Ethnic Swedes had higher prevalence of increased triglycerides and hypertension than Assyrians/Syrians. Total cholesterol, HbA1c and urinary albumin did not differ between the two ethnic groups.
全球有大量的糖尿病患者，且其发病率呈上升趋势。相较于非糖尿病患者，糖尿病患者发生心血管疾病的风险增加了一倍。目前缺乏针对 2 型糖尿病的亚述人/叙利亚人与瑞典人之间心血管危险因素的研究。本研究旨在评估 2 型糖尿病的亚述人/叙利亚人与瑞典人之间某些心血管危险因素的流行情况，并研究在调整年龄、性别、就业状况和住房状况后，种族与心血管危险因素之间的关联是否仍然存在。
在瑞典的绍特泰利耶镇，173 名亚述人/叙利亚人与 181 名瑞典籍 2 型糖尿病患者参加了一项评估心血管危险因素的研究，包括血红蛋白 A1c（HbA1c）升高、血脂升高（总胆固醇和甘油三酯）、高血压和尿白蛋白升高。使用非条件逻辑回归估计结局变量与社会人口学特征之间的关系。
在瑞典出生的受试者和亚述人/叙利亚人中，甘油三酯升高的患病率分别为 61.5%和 39.7%。瑞典人的高血压患病率为 76.8%，而亚述人/叙利亚人为 57.8%。在调整性别、年龄、住房和就业状况后的最终逻辑模型中，瑞典出生的受试者甘油三酯升高的比值比（OR）为 2.80（95%CI1.61-4.87），高血压的 OR 为 2.32（95%CI 1.35-4.00），与亚述人/叙利亚人相比。
与亚述人/叙利亚人相比，瑞典人甘油三酯升高和高血压的患病率更高。两组之间总胆固醇、HbA1c 和尿白蛋白无差异。
