Social inequality in type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Faroe Islands: a cross-sectional study
Aims: The Faroe Islands is considered a homogeneous society and has a low Gini coefficient, but the knowledge about the social distribution of health and disease is sparse. In a large population-based sample we investigated: (a) the association between socioeconomic position defined by level of educ...
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ftdatacite:10.25384/sage.c.5448785.v1 2023-05-15T16:10:30+02:00 Social inequality in type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Faroe Islands: a cross-sectional study Honnudóttir, Vár Hansen, Louise Veyhe, Anna Sofía Andersen, Ingelise Weihe, Pál Strøm, Marin Mohr, Magni 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.5448785.v1 https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Social_inequality_in_type_2_diabetes_mellitus_in_the_Faroe_Islands_a_cross-sectional_study/5448785/1 unknown SAGE Journals https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14034948211013267 https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.5448785 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified FOS Health sciences Collection article 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.5448785.v1 https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948211013267 https://doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.5448785 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Aims: The Faroe Islands is considered a homogeneous society and has a low Gini coefficient, but the knowledge about the social distribution of health and disease is sparse. In a large population-based sample we investigated: (a) the association between socioeconomic position defined by level of education and the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus by self-report in the Faroe Islands; and (b) to what degree lifestyle factors mediate the association. Methods: We used cross-sectional data from the population-based Public Health Survey Faroes 2015 ( n =1095). We present odds ratios for type 2 diabetes mellitus by socioeconomic position from logistic regression models. In our main model we adjusted for potential confounders and in a secondary model we additionally adjusted for potential mediating lifestyle factors. Results: Individuals with middle and low levels of education display higher odds ratios of type 2 diabetes mellitus of 2.80 (95% confidence interval 1.32–5.92) and 4.65 (95% confidence interval 1.93–11.17) in adjusted analysis, respectively, compared to their counterparts with high education. After adjustment for potentially mediating lifestyle factors the estimates were attenuated slightly, but a significant statistical association remained, with lifestyle-related mediating factors in total explaining 21% for middle education and 34% for low education participants. Conclusions : Our results demonstrate that there may be a social gradient in the distribution of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Faroe Islands, and that the association is partly mediated by lifestyle factors. Article in Journal/Newspaper Faroe Islands Faroes DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Faroe Islands |
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Aims: The Faroe Islands is considered a homogeneous society and has a low Gini coefficient, but the knowledge about the social distribution of health and disease is sparse. In a large population-based sample we investigated: (a) the association between socioeconomic position defined by level of education and the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus by self-report in the Faroe Islands; and (b) to what degree lifestyle factors mediate the association. Methods: We used cross-sectional data from the population-based Public Health Survey Faroes 2015 ( n =1095). We present odds ratios for type 2 diabetes mellitus by socioeconomic position from logistic regression models. In our main model we adjusted for potential confounders and in a secondary model we additionally adjusted for potential mediating lifestyle factors. Results: Individuals with middle and low levels of education display higher odds ratios of type 2 diabetes mellitus of 2.80 (95% confidence interval 1.32–5.92) and 4.65 (95% confidence interval 1.93–11.17) in adjusted analysis, respectively, compared to their counterparts with high education. After adjustment for potentially mediating lifestyle factors the estimates were attenuated slightly, but a significant statistical association remained, with lifestyle-related mediating factors in total explaining 21% for middle education and 34% for low education participants. Conclusions : Our results demonstrate that there may be a social gradient in the distribution of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Faroe Islands, and that the association is partly mediated by lifestyle factors. |
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Social inequality in type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Faroe Islands: a cross-sectional study |
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Social inequality in type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Faroe Islands: a cross-sectional study |
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Social inequality in type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Faroe Islands: a cross-sectional study |
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Social inequality in type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Faroe Islands: a cross-sectional study |
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social inequality in type 2 diabetes mellitus in the faroe islands: a cross-sectional study |
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