Lower educational level is a predictor of incident type 2 diabetes in European countries: the EPIC-InterAct study.

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BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide. In high-income countries, low socioeconomic status seems to be related to a high incidence of T2DM, but very little is known about the intermediate factors of this relationship. Method We performed a case-cohort study in eight Western European countries nested in the EPIC study (n = 340, 234, 3.99 million person-years of follow-up). A random sub-cohort of 16,835 individuals and a total of 12,403 ...

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Authors: Sacerdote, C; Ricceri, F; Rolandsson, O; Baldi, I; Chirlaque, MD

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: International journal of epidemiology
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 1162-1173
• Publication date: 2012-08-01
• DOI: 10.1093/ije/dys091
• EISSN: 1464-3685
• ISSN: 0300-5771
• Language: English
• Keywords: Incidence; Age Factors; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Risk Factors; Male; Educational Status; Humans; Female; Demography; Socioeconomic Factors; Europe; Proportional Hazards Models; Questionnaires; Middle Aged; Case-Control Studies