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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I was trying to link a huge study done in China in 2007 about diabetes becoming more prevalent in the Chinese population. It was an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine which most people hold up as the finest in printing valid medical research.
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(By the way in China 46,000 is not huge)
Sure it says that the people eating the western diets are gaining weight and having issues
The prevalence of diabetes increased with increasing age (3.2%, 11.5%, and 20.4% among persons who were 20 to 39, 40 to 59, and ≥60 years of age, respectively) and with
increasing weight (4.5%, 7.6%, 12.8%, and 18.5% among persons with a body-mass index [the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters] of <18.5, 18.5 to 24.9, 25.0 to 29.9, and ≥30.0, respectively).
The prevalence of diabetes was higher among urban residents than among rural residents (11.4% vs. 8.2%)