Where You Live is Related to Diabetes

Thu, 20 Oct 2011
New research highlights that where you live is related to the likelihood of being obese and developing diabetes.

Those in high-poverty areas are more susceptible to obesity and being diabetic than those in a low-poverty areas, as per census definitions.

It is important to note that your environment has an effect on your health.

The American study of course does not directly prove cause and effect.

Moreover, it purely measured diabetes, height and weight at the end of the study period, but, not at the start.

These results were derived from a study of 4,500 mothers living in public housing in a locality where a minimum of 40 per cent of local residents had incomes below the national poverty level.

The blood test results highlighted that 20 per cent of those who were not in receipt of a low-poverty voucher were diabetics, in contrast to 16 per cent in the group that was offered the voucher.

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