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Spanish Diabetes Education, Body Composition and Lipids in Hispanic Diabetics
Author(s) -
Rivera Maribet,
Fukuda David,
Sanchez Madeline,
Balcazar Hector,
Beeson Lawrence,
Libanati Cesar,
Firek Anthony,
CorderoMacIntyre Zaida
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.20.5.a1312
Objective To asses the effect of a culturally and language sensitive Diabetes Education program in Spanish. Methods Hispanic subjects (n=34) participated in a 3 month randomized trial. Fan beam DXA Hologic 4500 A software V8.26a:3 was used to analyze body composition. Paired T‐test was used to assess the difference between baseline and 3 months. Results In both genders, kg body weight (BW) (81.22 ± 17.90 vs. 80.31 ± 17.95, P=0.015), kg total body fat (30.41 ± 10.68 vs. 29.50 ± 10.52, P=0.000), total %fat (36.37 ± 7.4 vs. 35.77 ± 7.5, P=0.003), kg trunk fat (16.54 ± 5.73 vs. 15.93 ± 5.60, P=0.001), trunk %fat (37.57 ± 7.1 vs. 36.78 ± 7.1, P=0.003) decreased. Chol/HDL (4.35 ± 1.0 vs. 3.87 ± 0.98, P= 0.001), HDL‐C increased (44.65 ± 8.8 vs. 48.85 ± 11.4, P = 0.002). In males, BMI (31.90 ± 6.7 vs. 31.25 ± 5.9, P=0.037), total body fat (26.82 ± 9.29 vs. 25.70 ± 8.64, P=0.009), total %fat (29.21 ± 4.8 vs. 28.37 ± 4.4, P=0.022), trunk fat (16.02 ± 5.89 vs.15.11 ± 5.22, P=0.037), trunk %fat (32.64 ± 5.7 vs. 31.5 ± 5.1, P=0.046). Chol/HDL (4.5 ± 0.77 vs. 3.52 ± 0.80, P = 0.004) all decreased. In females, BW (78.55 ± 17.77 vs. 77.59 ± 18.18, P=0.046), total fat (31.70 ± 11.02 vs. 30.87 ± 10.95, P=0.010), total %fat (38.94 ± 6.5 vs. 38.43 ± 6.5, P=0.035), trunk fat (16.73 ± 5.78 vs. 16.22 ± 5.80, P=0.011), trunk %fat (39.35 ± 6.9 vs. 38.68 ± 6.8, P=0.034) decreased. Chol/HDL (4.30 ± 1.1 vs. 4.0 ± 1.0, P = 0.05) and HDL‐C increased (46.32 ± 8.9 vs. 49.44 ± 10.0, P = 0.041). Conclusion The program improved some of the lipid profile parameters and body composition in all subjects.