Porsch-Oezcueruemez, Mustafa and Bilgin, Yasar and Wollny, Michaela and Gediz, Ayla and Arat, Alev and Karatay, Erdogan and Akinci, Ahmet and Sinterhauf, Klaus and Koch, Heinz and Siegfried, Ingeborg and von Georgi, Richard and Brenner, Gerhard and Kloer, Hans-Ulrich (1999) Prevalence of risk factors of coronary heart disease in Turks living in Germany: The Giessen Study. ATHEROSCLEROSIS, 144 (1). pp. 185-198. ISSN 0021-9150,
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Turkish people represent the majority of immigrants in Germany. Even though a high proportion of Turks has been living in Germany since about 20 years, little is known about risk factors of coronary heart disease (CHD) in this population. In this study a sample of 325 male and 155 female Turks are investigated, who voluntarily underwent a health check-up in Germany. Data about the presence of CHD, risk factors and blood parameters were collected. Mean residence time was 21 and 17 years (males/females). A low percentage of female participants was observed compared to the general Turkish population in Germany. Age adjusted prevalence of CHD reached 9.5% in males and 6.7% in females, respectively. Dyslipoproteinemia (DLP) showed the highest prevalence of all risk factors investigated in both genders. Total cholesterol (TC) levels were comparable to those of other western countries and remarkably higher than reported for the population in Turkey. Besides this, low high density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C) and apolipoprotein A-I (ApoA-I) levels could be found in the majority of the sample. The highest odds ratios for CHD were estimated for stress and hypertension in males and obesity in females. It is concluded that Turkish immigrants in Germany showed an assimilation of lipid pattern to western populations. However, reasons for low HDL-C levels remain unclear. Changes in the lipid metabolism chiefly seem to contribute to the risk factor pattern of Turkish immigrants in Germany. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | DENSITY-LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE; LIPIDS; MEN; FIBRINOGEN; MORTALITY; APOLIPOPROTEINS; PARTICIPANTS; POPULATIONS; SINGAPORE; coronary heart disease; cross-sectional study; emigrants; epidemiology; health status; lipids; risk factors; Turks |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2022 12:25 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2022 12:25 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/48257 |
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