The incidence of different ethnic origin is different

Posted by ropinirole on November 20, 2008 in Diabetes

University of California at Los Angeles geography and environmental health science professor Diamond in “Nature” magazine published the findings show that there are indeed some people in “famine-resistant” genes. These genes might allow them to escape famine, but if they live in the cities, living standards improved, it may be easier suffering from diabetes.

Currently 150 million people worldwide suffer from type 2 diabetes, or adult diabetes, but the incidence rate of around different: only two percent of Europeans breast cancer, African-Americans who have breast cancer by 13% , Central and South America-Americans are 17 percent, while the U.S. territories of 50 percent.

Diamond studied 24 regions in nine different ethnic population of morbidity, and their eating habits and other factors come to these conclusions.

Diamond said: “At the present rate of growth in the incidence, diabetes will be dozens of years to become one of the world’s most common diseases, and the greatest public health problem of the estimated cases will reach 500 million at least.”

He believed that the gene theory could explain why the various ethnic suffering from diabetes have different ratios. And diabetes in Europe centuries ago in a pandemic that has led to a large number of Europeans killed, the Europeans can pass the gene diabetes sensitive and future generations.

But living in Qiongxiangpirang the traditional non-European population has not been popular diabetes, until the more recent popular.

U.S. Pima Indians in Arizona, diabetes incidence rate of 50 percent, the highest in the world race.

Type 1 diabetes insulin in the body can not produce very little or even when the disease more common in children. In no insulin, is not able to food to energy.

Diabetes type 2 diabetes is the most common kind. In the human body can not produce enough insulin or can not be used when appropriate.

Diamond said: “Diabetes is a morbidity and people’s wealth is directly proportional to the disease. People have more money at will eat more, there will be the symptoms of diabetes risk.”