Diabet. Med. 29, 748–754 (2012) Abstract Aims To study the age at presentation and factors
associated with adult‐onset diabetes (≥ 20 years) among Arabs and Jews in Israel …

Objective Diabetes mellitus is an emerging epidemic in the Arab world. Although high
diabetes prevalence is documented in Israeli Arabs, information from cohort studies is scant …

Aims Immigrant populations from the Middle East develop diabetes earlier than indigenous
European populations; however, the underlying etiology is poorly understood. This study …

This review surveys the literature published on the characteristics and implications of pre-
diabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) for the Arab and Bedouin populations of …

Aims/hypothesis This study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of diabetes and its
association with ethnicity and sex, to identify subgroups at special risk. Methods We …

Aims Rates of diabetes mellitus in the young have not been quantified on a population level,
particularly in South Asian and Chinese populations, which bear high rates of diabetes. We …

Background: We determined whether the overall lower prevalence of type II diabetes in
England versus the Netherlands is observed in South-Asian-Indian and African-Caribbean …

The economic growth has paralleled the rise of diabetes and its complications in multiethnic
population of United Arab Emirates (UAE). Previous studies have shown that characteristics …

Aims To determine the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in a sample of the adult
population of Alexandria, Egypt, and to delineate the epidemiologic profile of the disease in …

OBJECTIVE To determine prevalence of diabetes and associated risk factors in the
population of Bahrain. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A cross-sectional study of …