Are You Susceptible?

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Diabetes is not infectious or a communicable disease. People do not catch these sickenss  from one another. On the other hand, there are certain aspects which can add to the risk of developing diabetes.

 Type 1 diabetes hits in the same way among males and females but is more common in whites than in non-whites. This too can be seen in children except that it occurs at any age. Type 2 diabetes is vulnerable in older people, particularly in people who are heavy or obese. On an average, non-Hispanic African Americans are 1.8 times as likely to have diabetes as non-Hispanic whites of the similar age.

April 21 2008 04:58 pm | General

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