Onset of Type 2 diabetes in adults aged 50 and older in Europe: an intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy
Julie Lorraine O’Sullivan, Enrique Alonso-Perez, Francesca Färber, Georg Fuellen, Henrik Rudolf, Jan Paul Heisig, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Paul Gellert · 2024
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Julie Lorraine O'Sullivan and co-authors ask how social traits combine to shape diabetes risk in older Europeans. Their 2024 study uses a health and retirement survey that spans Europe. It follows 39,108 people aged 50 and up who had no type 2 diabetes at the start. Traits in view are sex, migrant roots, living setup, schooling, and household income.
Over nine years, about one in eleven people developed diabetes. Each social trait added its own push toward onset. Yet knowing a person's full trait mix sorted future cases only weakly. The fine-grained method used here splits each trait's push from the mix's weak sorting power. The team argues that broad social fixes may matter more than hunting for high-risk corners.
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| CREATOR | Julie Lorraine O’Sullivan, Enrique Alonso-Perez, Francesca Färber, Georg Fuellen, Henrik Rudolf, Jan Paul Heisig, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Paul Gellert |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |