Minority Diabetes Reports
Sunday, March 2nd, 2014
Diabetes Spectrum: February 2014 Background. The South Bronx, a largely Latino community, has become an epicenter of the diabetes epidemic in New York City. In this community, nondiabetic first-degree relatives of people with diabetes are prime targets for intervention. Therefore, the objective of this study was to explore the knowledge of diabetes and attitudes toward health behavior […]
Minority Diabetes Reports
Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
Diabetes Care: February 4, 2014 OBJECTIVE The Northern Manhattan Diabetes Community Outreach Project evaluated whether a community health worker (CHW) intervention improved clinically relevant markers of diabetes care in adult Hispanics. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Participants were adult Hispanics, ages 35–70 years, with recent hemoglobin A1c (A1C) ≥8% (≥64 mmol/mol), from a university-affiliated network of primary care practices in […]
Minority Diabetes Reports
Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
Insulin Nation: January 28th, 2014 Hispanics and Latinos make up the fastest-growing demographic of the U.S. population. They also are experiencing the fastest increase in the rates of both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, and that alarms many public health officials. According to a recent American Diabetes Association analysis of diabetes health data, 52.5% of […]
Minority Diabetes Reports
Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
Indian Country Today Media Network: 1/16/14 For the second year in a row, Indian Health Service (IHS) leadership is confused how federal sequestration will impact its budget, leading to questions of responsibility and competency from Native-focused health officials. The latest confusion centers on how the Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI), a program created in 1997 […]
Minority Diabetes Reports
Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
HSPH News: January 21, 2014 Princeton, N.J. – A new NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health poll was released today on the views of Latinos in America about their health and health care, communities, financial situation, and discrimination in their lives. The poll found that Latinos see diabetes as the biggest health problem for their own families. Nearly […]
Minority Diabetes Reports
Saturday, January 18th, 2014
Diabetes: January 2014 South Asians (SAs) develop type 2 diabetes at a younger age and lower BMI compared with Caucasians (Cs). The underlying cause is still poorly understood but might result from an innate inability to adapt to the Westernized diet. This study aimed to compare the metabolic adaptation to a high-fat, high-calorie (HFHC) diet between […]
Minority Diabetes Reports
Saturday, January 18th, 2014
Nature: December 25, 2013 Performing genetic studies in multiple human populations can identify disease risk alleles that are common in one population but rare in others1, with the potential to illuminate pathophysiology, health disparities, and the population genetic origins of disease alleles. Here we analysed 9.2 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in each of 8,214 Mexicans […]
Minority Diabetes Reports
Saturday, January 18th, 2014
Biomedcentral: December 23, 2013 Background There is strong evidence based on previous studies that ethnicity and socioeconomic status are important determinants of diversity in the occurrence of diabetes. However, the independent roles of socioeconomic status, country of birth and lifestyle factors in the occurrence of type 2 diabetes have not been clearly identified. This study investigated […]
Minority Diabetes Reports
Saturday, January 18th, 2014
Diabetes December 18, 2013 We previously showed that ethnicity modifies the association between adiposity and insulin resistance. We sought to determine whether differential body fat partitioning or abnormalities in muscle insulin signaling associated with higher levels of adiposity might underlie this observation. We measured insulin sensitivity index (ISI), %body fat, visceral (VAT) and subcutaneous (SAT) adipose […]
Minority Diabetes Reports
Sunday, December 29th, 2013
Diabetes Care: November 22, 2013 Background: Although those with type 2 diabetes have double the risk of dementia, potential racial/ethnic differences in dementia risk have not been explored in this population. We evaluated racial/ethnic differences in dementia and potential explanatory factors among older diabetes patients. Methods: We identified 22,171 diabetes patients without preexisting dementia, aged ≥60 years (14,546 […]
