Diabetes has been a pandemic for the last decade on both sides of the border from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean.
These are statistics provided by Teresa Cerqueira, the chief of the U.S.- Mexico Border Office of the Pan American Health Organisation, part of the World Health Organisation.
Even though there are no statistics on the prevalence of this disease amongst Hispanics along the border, data from the Arizona Department of Health Services highlights that 13.5 percent of Yuma County’s residents were diabetic in 2010, which is the highest rate in Arizona.
2010 Cenus data shows that Hispanics account for almost 60 per cent of the county’s total population.
Diabetes has spread so vehemently due to people's poor diets and sedentary lifestyles which border residents inherit from their families and those around them.
Diabetes within Hispanic Population Growing Alarmingly
Wed, 14 Dec 2011
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