Taiwanese susceptible to diabetes

 25-Oct-16, Taipei Times

Doctors said the pathogenic factors leading to type 2 diabetes for Taiwanese might differ slightly from those that affect Westerners, in that East Asian people tend to have weaker insulin secretion and a higher body fat ratio.

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Diabetes Association of the Republic of China secretary-general Lin Shih-yi (林時逸) said type 2 diabetes has often been linked with obesity.

However, a Japanese retrospective study showed that while about 80 percent of Westerners with type 2 diabetes were obese, only abut 30 to 40 percent of Taiwanese were obese and the average age of onset was younger, he said.

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