Hispanics Find It More Difficult to Keep Diabetes Under Control

February 17, 2008 at 1:30 PM Diabetes News
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'We were not surprised by these findings since ethnic minorities in the U.S. are disproportionately affected by diabetes, and we found a similar trend in the African American population with diabetes a year ago,' said Kirk.

'What did surprise us were the results of our analysis of subgroups of patients with managed care and non-managed care insurance. The largest difference for A1C was among non-managed care insurance groups,' added Kirk.

The researchers recommend the development of strategies that focus not only on discovering the source of the differences in diabetes control between the two groups, but also on reducing these disparities.

The study is published in Diabetes Care.

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