Diabetes and hispanic health; we are what we eat
Clinical Trial News Thursday, November 29th, 2012Science Salsa: Nov. 14, 2012
November 14th was world diabetes day, a day to mark on your calendar!
Diabetes complications drastically affect your quality of life and cut your life expectancy. Some risk factors such as age and ethnicity are unavoidable, but type 2 diabetes is often preventable and can be treated by changing what you eat and by exercising more.
This advice is well-known, but the number of new patients is not decreasing. More than 371 million people have diabetes worldwide, and the number of people with diabetes is increasing in every country. In the US, the Latino population has experienced an increasing percentage of people diagnosed with diabetes; from 6.3% in 1997 to 9.3% in 2010 (CDC age-adjusted data). Hispanics are hit harder than other populations in the US.The Office of Minority Health reported that: “Mexican Americans are almost twice as likely asnon-Hispanic whites to be diagnosed with diabetes by a physician. Read more