An analysis of electronic health records from US adults in Northern California reveals that among Asian adults with BMI in the healthy range, up to one-third of men and one-fourth of women had prediabetes. The findings are published in BMCPublicHealth.
]. Ethnic variation in BMI may in part explain the higher prevalence of diabetes among Filipino and South Asian adults compared to Chinese adults, and comparisons of these ethnic groups to each other or to White adults have generally used models that adjusted for BMI. Fewer studies have examined Asian ethnic group differences in diabetes and prediabetes within weight strata, and the majority of these studies have been based on self-reported data from population surveys.
Valid ambulatory weight in 2016 and height closest to the date of weight measurement were used to calculate BMI. For White adults, BMI was classified according to standard criteria for healthy weight , overweight , and obesity . For Chinese, Filipino and South Asian adults, we used the lower BMI intervention thresholds recommended for Asians by both the World Health Organization Expert Consultation and the ADA to classify healthy weight , overweight , and obesity (BMI ≥ 27.
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