Diabetes News

Several underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, including American Indian, Asian, Black, and Hispanic individuals, experience a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes and higher rates of disease-attributable morbidity and mortality than White individuals (JAMA)

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes was higher in the Asian and Black ethnic groups, compared with the White group. Accurate estimates of ethnic prevalence of type 2 diabetes based on large datasets are important for facilitating appropriate allocation of public health resources, and for allowing population-level research to be undertaken examining disease trajectories among minority ethnic groups, that might help reduce inequalities (Clinical Epidemiology)