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Ethnicity and type 2 diabetes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a review of the prevalence of the disease in Amerindians.
Human biology - 1 Aug 2002
Palatnik Marcos, da Silva Júnior Wilson Araújo, Estalote Angela Cristina, de Oliveira José Egidio Paulo, Milech Adolpho, Zago Marco Antonio
Abstract excerpt
To what extent can ethnic factors contribute to the prevalence of type 2 diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) in an urban Brazilian population? Conversely, how can environmental factors such as diet change these prevalences in a given ethnic group, in this case Brazilian Indians? To answer these questions estimates of ethnic admixture in Afro- and Euro-Brazilians from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were...
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