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Article: Native children new victims of diabetes.
- Article from:
- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Type II or non-insulin-dependent diabetes in Native youth is a new childhood disease in Canada.
How can we be sure it is a new problem and not simply the result of improved detection? First, because the Elders say so.
Second, data available in Canada shows how rarely diabetes was diagnosed in young people under 15 years of age prior to 1985. From 1985 to the present, however, there has been a dramatic increase in the diagnosis of affected youth.
Other Aboriginal populations around the world are also experiencing the same new problem -- an increasing number of children under 15 with Type II diabetes.
The Gila River diabetes study ...