Success factors. Learning what works to help American Indians prevent type 2 diabetes.

摘要

THERE ARE hundreds of American Indian tribes in the U.S. each with different cultures, languages, histories, and lifestyles. And yet they have at least one thing in common: type 2 diabetes."In 2011, American Indians had the highest age-adjusted rates of diabetes in the U.S." says Luohua Jiang, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Irvine. "It's about 16 percent, almost twice the rate in the general population."