> Asians who typically have a lower BMI than white individuals have higher incidences of Diabetes?
Perhaps I missed it but where in that link does it say Asians have "higher incidences of Diabetes" than whites?
Perhaps I missed it but where in that link does it say Asians have "higher incidences of Diabetes" than whites?
"The educated [Asian] population knows that they're getting diabetes and hypertension and all these things at a much lower BMI, but if you're in a culture where everybody's really fat and you're thin, you tend to go around and think, 'Well, I'm protected,'"
> However, the impact of increasing BMI on risk of hypertension and diabetes was significantly greater in Asians. For each one unit increase in BMI, Asians were significantly more likely to have hypertension (OR 1.15; 95 % CI 1.13–1.18) compared to non-Hispanic whites, blacks, and Hispanics.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10900-013-9792-...