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Diabetes & Asian Americans, Part I: Asian Americans More Likely to Have Diabetes

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Mike

“It was January 23rd, 2002. I had been dehydrated for two days now. I was weary and confused, but other than that, I was a healthy, active 23 year-old. But that morning, I woke up slowly, crawled to the bathroom, … Continue reading →

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Online Tools in the fight against Asian American Diabetes

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Jeff

Asian Americans are said to be more likely than whites to develop Type 2 Diabetes.  To help Asian Americans deal with this situation, the Joslin Diabetes Center has upgraded its Asian American Diabetes Initiative website.  http://aadi.joslin.org/ contains such tools as … Continue reading →

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Asian-American Youth and Juvenile Diabetes

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Jeff

When Number One Son first started playing on a mostly Asian-American basketball team at his school, two out of 8 kids on his squad had diabetes and had to take insulin.   So after Tim forwarded this article from the Honolulu … Continue reading →

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