High Prevalence of Dyslipidemia in the Dresden Jewish Population

Introduction

In the last 15 years, about 200000 Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants have resettled from the former Soviet Union in Germany. They constitute already a considerable part of patients in the outpatient and hospital departments. There is a growing evidence for differences in health and social service utilization by Jewish immigrants [1] [2] indicating a higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Russian Jewish immigrants than the overall prevalence in western world [3] as well as differences in lipid metabolism [4], however, poor data exists on their health status. Therefore, we have evaluated the parameters of the lipid and carbohydrate metabolism in the Jewish Dresden immigrant population.

References

• 1 Korenblum W. et al . Mol Psychiatry. 2005;  10 ((11)) 974-975
• 2 Mascie-Taylor CG, Little MA. Am J Hum Biol. 2004;  16 ((4)) 365-378
• 3 Oystragh P. Aust Fam Physician. 1980;  9 ((5)) 269-270
• 4 Rubinstein A. et al . Am J Epidemiol. 1988;  128 ((1)) 153-164
• 5 Schwarz PE, Bornstein SR. Horm Metab Res. 2006;  38 ((5)) 359
• 6 Jaross W. et al . Eur J Epidemiol. 1994;  10 ((3)) 307-315
• 7 Tsuchiya T, Schwarz PE, Bosque-Plata LD, Geoffrey Hayes M, Dina C, Froguel P. et al . Association of the calpain-10 gene with type 2 diabetes in Europeans: Results of pooled and meta-analyses.  Mol Genet Metab. 2006; 
• 8 Reimann M. et al . Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2007;  77 ((1)) 62-69
• 9 Schwarz PE. et al . Horm Metab Res. 2006;  38 ((7)) 460-464
• 10 Schwarz PE, Schwarz J, Schuppenies A, Bornstein SR, Schulze J. Development of a diabetes prevention management program for clinical practice.  Public Health Rep. 2007;  122 ((2)) 258-263

Correspondence