Associations between race, lifecourse socioeconomic position and prevalence of diabetes among US women and men: results from a population-based panel study

Background

Few studies have examined the degree to which racial disparities in the development of diabetes are accounted by differences in lifecourse socioeconomic position (SEP). We assessed the association between race, lifecourse SEP measures and prevalence of diabetes in a representative US sample of black and white adults.

Methods

A generalised estimating equations approach was used with a sample of 3497 adults from the...