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Understanding the high prevalence of diabetes in u.s. southasianscomparedwithfour racial/ethnic groups: The masala and mesa studies

Kanaya, Alka;
Kanaya, AM;
Herrington, D;
Vittinghoff, E;
Ewing, SK;
Liu, K;
Blaha, MJ;
Dave, SS;
Qureshi, F;
Kandula, NR

UC San Francisco Previously Published Works (2014)

OBJECTIVE We compared South Asians with four other racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. to determine whether sociodemographic, lifestyle, or metabolic factors could explain the higher diabetes prevalence and whether insulin resistance and b-cell dysfunction oc