CHARACTERISTICS OF TYPE II DIABETICS COMPARED TO NON-DIABETIC POARCH CREEK INDIANS (NATIVE AMERICANS, CORONARY HEART DISEASE).
Contributors: University Of Illinois At Chicago, Health Sciences Center.
Published: 1995
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Public Health.
Description: The overall objective of this study was to describe select characteristics of Poarch Creek Indians with non-insulin dependent diabetes (NIDDM) and those subjects without this chronic disease. A second objective was to characterize risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) by examining NIDDM and control subjects from this tribe.

This study was a comparative, descriptive case control design. Eighty-two Poarch Creek Indians (41 subjects in each group) were examined in relation to demographics, family history, clinical profile, anthropometric measurements, metabolic parameters, level of physical activity, dietary history, and lifestyle choices.

The control group was at risk for developing NIDDM (high waist-hip ratio (WHR), high parental history of NIDDM, and physical inactivity), as well as CHD (high WHR, hypertension, elevated total cholesterol, elevated triglyceride levels, elevated low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels, and decreased high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL)). The NLDDM group had many risk factors for CHD (NIDDM status, hypertension, elevated cholesterol levels, elevated triglyceride levels, elevated LDL cholesterol levels, and decreased HDL cholesterol levels).

The findings revealed that the NIDDM subject group strongly exhibited risk factors for CHD. This study also suggests that the control group demonstrated identical risk factors for CHD, as well as, risk factors for NIDDM.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-05, Section: B, page: 2556.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, 1995.

School code: 0806.