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Prevalence and associated risk factors of undiagnosed diabetes among adult Moroccan Sahraoui women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2007

Mohamed Rguibi  and
Rekia Belahsen
Mohamed Rguibi
Affiliation:
Training and Research Unit on Food Sciences, Laboratory of Physiology Applied to Nutrition and Feeding, Chouaib Doukkali University, Faculty of Sciences, El Jadida 24000, Morocco
Rekia Belahsen*
Affiliation:
Training and Research Unit on Food Sciences, Laboratory of Physiology Applied to Nutrition and Feeding, Chouaib Doukkali University, Faculty of Sciences, El Jadida 24000, Morocco
*
*Corresponding author: Email rbelahsen@yahoo.com or rekiabelahsen@yahoo.fr
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Abstract

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Objective

The goal of the present work was to examine the prevalence and associated risk factors of undiagnosed diabetes among urban Moroccan Sahraoui women.

Design and setting

Randomised sample of adult women living in the city of Laayoune in south Morocco who visited public health centres during an immunisation campaign. Body weight, height, waist and hip circumferences, blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose (FPG), triglycerides, dietary intake and physical activity were collected.

Subjects

Data were obtained on 249 urban women aged 15 years and older, who were not pregnant. Only subjects identified as of Sahraoui origin were eligible for this investigation.

Results

The prevalence of impaired fasting glucose (IFG) was 5.5% and that of undiagnosed diabetes 6.4%. Diabetes and IFG were more common among older and obese women as well as among women with hypertension or a family history of diabetes. In addition, sucrose intakes were higher in women with diabetes than in those with normal FPG. Also, physical activity estimated as the time spent in walking was negatively associated with FPG. Regression analyses showed an independent association of age, obesity, family history of diabetes and triglycerides with diabetes.

Conclusion

The high proportion of unknown diabetes suggests the need for increased diabetes awareness in this population. The data suggest also the involvement of obesity in diabetes and the potential importance of intervention strategies to reduce population adiposity for the prevention and management of cardiovascular risk factors.

Keywords

MoroccoSahraoui ethnic groupWomenUndiagnosed diabetes
Type
Research Article
Information
Public Health Nutrition , Volume 9 , Issue 6 , September 2006 , pp. 722 - 727
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 2006

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