Department of Internal Medicine, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, 150 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic.
Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Belegärzte am Alice-Hospital, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Nov 21;15(11):2607. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15112607.
The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the Roma population and compare it to the prevalence in the Caucasian population.
Using the words "Roma", "Gypsies", "Romani", and "traveler" in combination with "diabetes, "metabolic syndrome", "cardiovascular disease" and "health status" we searched the MEDLINE, Pubmed and Scopus databases for articles in English that focused on the prevalence of diabetes mellitus among Roma populations published until December 2017.
Five studies met the inclusion criteria. The results of four of them suggested a higher prevalence of diabetes among Romani compared to Caucasians but none of them reached the standards regarding representative samples and number of cases for a conclusive result.
Although some of the existing studies suggest a substantial prevalence of diabetes among Roma populations and even a higher risk of developing diabetes for Roma persons compared to Caucasians, the number of published literature on this topic remains very low and insufficient in design and number of participants to draw any conclusions.
本研究旨在估计罗姆人群中糖尿病的患病率，并将其与白种人群的患病率进行比较。
我们使用“罗姆人”、“吉普赛人”、“罗姆”和“旅行者”等词与“糖尿病”、“代谢综合征”、“心血管疾病”和“健康状况”相结合，在 MEDLINE、Pubmed 和 Scopus 数据库中搜索截至 2017 年 12 月发表的关于罗姆人群中糖尿病患病率的英文文章。
有五项研究符合纳入标准。其中四项研究的结果表明，罗姆人患糖尿病的比例高于白种人，但没有一项研究达到具有代表性的样本和足够数量的病例的标准，因此无法得出结论。
尽管一些现有的研究表明罗姆人群中糖尿病的患病率相当高，甚至罗姆人患糖尿病的风险比白种人更高，但关于这一主题的文献数量仍然很少，在设计和参与者数量方面都不足以得出任何结论。
