Potassium levels possible key to racial disparity in type 2 diabetes

Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 09:40 in Health & Medicine

Lower potassium levels in the blood may help explain why African-Americans are twice as likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes as whites, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers...

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