Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
There was no word for diabetes in traditional Native languages when the Europeans arrived on this continent. In 1933, a physician for the Indian Health Service (IHS) reported just one case in the entire state of Arizona.
And yet today, type 2 diabetes is devastating American Indians. The disease can lead to blindness, amputation, nerve and kidney disease, heart disease and stroke. The U.S. Health and Human Services says American Indian/Alaska Native adults are more than twice as likely as their white counterparts to get diabetes, and twice as likely to die from it.
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwo...edia-slant-as-the-diabetes-crisis-looms-72422
And yet today, type 2 diabetes is devastating American Indians. The disease can lead to blindness, amputation, nerve and kidney disease, heart disease and stroke. The U.S. Health and Human Services says American Indian/Alaska Native adults are more than twice as likely as their white counterparts to get diabetes, and twice as likely to die from it.
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwo...edia-slant-as-the-diabetes-crisis-looms-72422