Some groups have trouble controlling diabetes

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 07:30 in Health & Medicine

Among individuals in the U.S. with diabetes, non-Latino whites tend to better control the cardiovascular risk factors blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol, while African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and those with little or no college education are at higher risk for complications of the disease, a recent study by UAlbany economists Pinka Chatterji, Heesoo Joo, and Kajal Lahiri found.

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