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Diabetes Risk In Aboriginal Canadians: Metabolic Syndrome Can Help With Identification
Metabolic syndrome is the clustering of risk factors associated with Diabetes and heart disease, such as obesity, high cholesterol, high glucose and hypertension. Aboriginal Canadians have a 3-5 times higher prevalence of Type Two Diabetes compared with non-Aboriginal Canadians. The 10-year clinical study involved 492 residents from the Sandy Lake First Nation community in Ontario. It found that the 10-year incidence of Diabetes was 17.5%, which increased with age from 10.
