{"title":"Overview of type 2 diabetes in Hispanic Americans.","authors":"I Chukwueke, Z Cordero-Macintyre","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diabetes mellitus continues to be a heavy burden on health and health resources throughout the world. In the USA the burden is borne disproportionately by ethnic minorities such as Hispanics. Therefore health education for Hispanics is important and it can help reduce the incidence of diabetes among Hispanics in the USA.</p>","PeriodicalId":87474,"journal":{"name":"International journal of body composition research","volume":"8 Supp","pages":"77-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3019531/pdf/nihms220562.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International journal of body composition research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Diabetes mellitus continues to be a heavy burden on health and health resources throughout the world. In the USA the burden is borne disproportionately by ethnic minorities such as Hispanics. Therefore health education for Hispanics is important and it can help reduce the incidence of diabetes among Hispanics in the USA.