Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The dark patches on their skin tell a troubling tale of life and poverty on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.
Doctors call them acanthosis nigricans, and they mark hundreds of Lakota children from places such as Rosebud and Milk?s Camp and Two Strike whose bodies are resisting insulin and teetering on the edge of diabetes.
Left untreated, many of those children could become part of a startling statistic ? death from Type 2 diabetes on the reservation is five to six times the national average and worse than anyplace else in America.
http://www.argusleader.com/article/...nsulin-maker-to-fight-diabetes-on-reservation
Doctors call them acanthosis nigricans, and they mark hundreds of Lakota children from places such as Rosebud and Milk?s Camp and Two Strike whose bodies are resisting insulin and teetering on the edge of diabetes.
Left untreated, many of those children could become part of a startling statistic ? death from Type 2 diabetes on the reservation is five to six times the national average and worse than anyplace else in America.
http://www.argusleader.com/article/...nsulin-maker-to-fight-diabetes-on-reservation