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Health Watch
Why Asian Americans have diabetes but don’t know it
What’s even more surprising: Asian Americans have but they should still be mindful of their activity levels
the highest proportion of undiagnosed diabetes and their diet and see their doctors to make sure they
among all ethnic and racial groups, at 51 percent, don’t have diabetes,” said Catherine Cowie, the
according to researchers from the National Institutes study’s senior author and director of diabetes
of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and epidemiology programs at the National Institutes of
Prevention. Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive
and Kidney Diseases.
And something else to keep in mind: Asian Americans
And something else to keep in mind: Asian Americans
may be less overweight, generally, than the rest of the That’s because Asian Americans often develop diabe-
That’s because Asian Americans often develop diabe-
U.S. population, but they may actually be at greater tes at a lower body mass index, or BMI, than the U.S.
risk for developing diabetes. Compared to Americans population overall. (BMI estimates how much a person
in general, Asian Americans are “not as overweight, should weigh based on their height.) But it doesn’t
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