Type 2 Diabetes

Lifestyle Fuels Higher Chance Disease in African-American Women

Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 20th, 2000

A nine-year study of more than 12,000 middle-aged Americans suggests that at least half of the extra risk for diabetes faced by African-American women is linked to relatively simple and modifiable lifestyle factors.

The same was not true for African-American men, according to the study team led by Johns Hopkins University investigators.

"We've known for a long time that compared to their white counterparts, middle-aged African-Americans have both higher blood pressure and a higher prevalence of Type 2, noninsulin-dependent diabetes and its complications," says Frederick L. Brancati, MD, MHS, lead author of the study and associate professor of...

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