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Is being Hispanic a risk factor for non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM)?
Ethnicity & disease - 1 Jan 2000
Chakraborty B M, Fernández-Esquer M E, Chakraborty R
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The objective of this paper is to critically assess the basis of the hypothesis that the ethnicity of Hispanics is by itself a risk factor of NIDDM. Showing that the definition of the term Hispanics has both operational and methodological problems, it is argued that in the United States, a group identified by this term is genetically, as well as culturally, heterogeneous. Further, the actual risk factors of NIDDM...
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