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Ethnic Differences In Insulin Resistance, Adiponectin Levels And Abdominal Obesity: Haitian Americans And African Americans, With And Without Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Amanpreet K. Cheena, Gustavo G. Zarini, Joel C. Exebio, Sahar Ajabshir, Lemia Shaban, Janet Antwi, Joan Vaccaro, Fatma G. Huffman
Ethnic Differences In Insulin Resistance, Adiponectin Levels And Abdominal Obesity: Haitian Americans And African Americans, With And Without Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Amanpreet K. Cheena, Gustavo G. Zarini, Joel C. Exebio, Sahar Ajabshir, Lemia Shaban, Janet Antwi, Joan Vaccaro, Fatma G. Huffman
Joan A. Vaccaro
Background: Metabolic outcomes of obesity and its associated disorders may not be equivalent across ethnicity and diabetes status.
Aim: In this paper, we examined the association of abdominal obesity, by ethnicity and diabetes status, for indicators of glucose metabolism in Blacks.
Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in Haitian Americans (n= 186) and African Americans (n= 148) with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Student’s t-test and Chi-squared test were used to assess differences in mean and proportion values between ethnicities with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus. Relationship between insulin resistance, ethnicity, diabetes status, abdominal obesity, and …