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Horm Metab Res 2007; 39(9): 700-701
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-985813
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High Prevalence of Dyslipidemia in the Dresden Jewish Population

S. Tselmin 1 , P. E. H. Schwarz 1 , A. Bergmann 1 , S. Bornstein 1 , S. Bergmann 2
  • 1Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus at the Technical University of Dresden, Department of Medicine III, Genetics and Prevention of Diabetes, Dresden, Germany
  • 2Institute of the Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Carl Gustav Carus Medical School, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
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received 09.05.2007

accepted 31.05.2007

Publication Date:
10 September 2007 (online)

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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.

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Correspondence

Dr. med. P. E.H. Schwarz

Department of Medicine III

Carl Gustav Carus Medical School

Dresden University of Technology

Fetscherstrasse 74

01307 Dresden

Germany

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Email: peter.schwarz@uniklinikum-dresden.de

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