Power to Prevent: A Family Lifestyle Approach to Diabetes Prevention

Sometimes it seems as if everyone knows someone who is affected by diabetes. More than in 9 African American adults have diabetes. African Americans are .8 times as likely to have diabetes as non-Hispanic whites of the same age . Researchers estimate that if diabetes continues to increase at its current rate, in 3 children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime—unless something changes. [NDEP_African-American_African-Ancestry_Work_Group_bookos-z1.org_

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