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Obesity Is the Main Contributor to Diabetes in Blacks and Whites

Type 2 diabetes is almost twice as common in African-Americans as it is in whites. Obesity, rather than racial factors, is to blame, a new study in JAMA reports... When they controlled for a long list of modifiable risk factors — fasting glucose, body mass index, waist circumference, blood pressure, blood lipids, location of residence, socioeconomic status and more — the difference in diabetes incidence between the races disappeared. The key cause, the researchers determined, is obesity, which is tied to all of these risk factors.

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