Summary
Published Date: May 26, 2015
Authors examined associations between generational status and age-adjusted type 2 diabetes (T2DM) among Asians living in California based on data of 7,188 Asian Americans of six ethnicities from the 2007 and 2009 California Health Interview Survey and found second-generation Asian men and first-generation Asian women had higher T2DM prevalence compared with their White peers. Such a trend was observed among Chinese and Filipino men, and Filipina and Korean women. In addition, Filipinas who spoke only English at home had lower odds of T2DM than other Filipinas while the relationship was reversed among Filipino men.
