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Diabetes (Risk)
Black Women at a Greater Risk of Diabetes Than White Women
November 13th, 1995
A high fat diet may be more detrimental to African-American women than Caucasian women as a risk factor for diabetes and a low fat diet may not be as beneficial for black women as compared to white women. These findings were presented at a type II diabetes conference sponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA), held November 2, 1995, in New York, New York. Jennifer C. Lovejoy, a research endocrinologist and assistant professor at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center, reported that the African-American population in the U.S. suffers disproportionately from adult-onset...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (1995-11-13)
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