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Contextualizing the Burden of Chronic Disease: Diabetes, Mortality and Disability in Older Mexicans

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Abstract

Objectives: This study’s purpose is to examine the prevalence of chronic conditions among older Mexicans with diabetes and to determine the incidence of newly diagnosed medical conditions at follow-up by diabetes status.

Methods: This study uses the Mexican Health and Aging Survey (MHAS). Chi-square tests were conducted to test bivariate relationships of self-reported diabetes with demographic covariates and select self-reported health outcomes. Logistic regression models then were conducted to evaluate the relationship between diabetes and the prevalence and incidence on health outcomes adjusting for sociodemographic covariates.

Results: Analysis indicates that approximately 15% of this sample reported having been diagnosed with diabetes. Subjects with diabetes had an odds of 8.25 (95% CI = 3.86, 18.0) greater to rate their health as “poor,” 3.52 (95% CI = 2.15, 5.75) greater odds to miss more than 1 month of work in the previous year, and 2.26 (95%, CI = 1.33, 3.82) greater odds to have had a stroke in their lifetime. Finally, subjects with diabetes had a much higher likelihood of mortality by follow-up (O.R. = 3.36, 95% CI = 2.09, 5.39) and significantly higher odds of having any functional limitations (O.R. = 3.24, 95% CI = 2.01, 5.25).

Discussion: Older Mexicans with diabetes had a greater disease burden than their counterparts.

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  1. University of Texas, Brownsville, USA

    Jennifer J. Salinas, Bassent E. Abdelbary, Elizabeth A. Rocha & Sohan Al Snih

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  1. Dept. Sociology, University of Texas, Austin, University Station 1, Austin, 78712, Texas, USA

    Jacqueline L. Angel

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  3. University of Texas Medical Branch at Ga, Rte. 1153 1.128 Ewin, Galveston, 77555, Texas, USA

    Kyriakos Markides

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Salinas, J.J., Abdelbary, B.E., Rocha, E.A., Snih, S.A. (2012). Contextualizing the Burden of Chronic Disease: Diabetes, Mortality and Disability in Older Mexicans. In: Angel, J., Torres-Gil, F., Markides, K. (eds) Aging, Health, and Longevity in the Mexican-Origin Population. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1867-2_11

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