Family average income and diagnosed Type 2 diabetes in urban and rural residents in regional mainland China. Xu, Fei, Yin, Xiao-Mei, Zhang, Min, Leslie, Eva, Ware, Robert. and Owen, Neville 2006, Family average income and diagnosed Type 2 diabetes in urban and rural residents in regional mainland China., Diabetic medicine: journal of diabetes UK, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 1239-1246, doi: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2006.01965.x. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Family average income and diagnosed Type 2 diabetes in urban and rural residents in regional mainland China. Author(s) Xu, Fei Yin, Xiao-Mei Zhang, Min Leslie, Eva Ware, Robert. Owen, Neville Journal name Diabetic medicine: journal of diabetes UK Volume number 23 Issue number 11 Start page 1239 End page 1246 Publisher Wiley Place of publication Chichester, England Publication date 2006-11 ISSN 0742-3071 1464-5491 Keyword(s) China diabetes family average income socio-economic status Summary Aims: To explore the relationship between family average income (FAI; an index of socio-economic status) and Type 2 diabetes in a region of mainland China. Methods: Population-based cross-sectional study, conducted between October 2000 and March 2001 in administrative villages (n = 45) randomly selected from three urban districts and two rural counties of NanJing municipality, mainland China, with a regional population of 5.6 million. Participants were all local residents aged ≥ 35 years old (n = 29 340); 67.7% from urban areas, 32.3% from rural areas, 49.8% male and 50.2% female. Results: The response rate of eligible participants was 90.1%. The overall prevalence of self-reported Type 2 diabetes was 1.9%. After adjustment for possible confounding variables (age, gender, area of residence, body mass index, educational level, smoking status, occupational and leisure-time physical activity), participants in the higher and middle FAI categories were more than twice as likely to have Type 2 diabetes as those in the lower FAI category. Conclusions: The prevalence of Type 2 diabetes is positively related to socio-economic status (indexed by FAI) in Chinese at the population level. After controlling for potential confounding factors, people in higher socio-economic status groups are more likely to have Type 2 diabetes. These associations are consistent with other effects of epidemiological transition and identify a need for preventive initiatives. Language eng DOI 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2006.01965.x Field of Research 111706 Epidemiology HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2006, The Authors Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30008995 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Health and Social Development Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 30 Jan 2009, 11:10:59 EST Mon, 19 Apr 2010, 15:32:34 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 09:51:38 EST Fri, 22 Aug 2014, 14:26:16 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 27 times in TR Web of Science Cited 35 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 724 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 13 Oct 2008, 15:48:03 EST