Diabetes sees rise in Latino community
In addition to the usual hiatus immigrants spend away from the doctor’s office, studies show that Latinos are two times as likely to develop diabetes than white Americans.
Nearly 90 percent of all LaMarche’s diabetic patients at the Nashua Area Health Center are Latino. Every day, LaMarche treats five new patients who have symptoms of the disease, and the numbers are increasing.
Diabetes is the inability of a person’s pancreas to produce a normal amount of insulin, the enzyme that breaks food down. If the illness remains untreated, blindness or loss of a limb can result. Obesity increases one’s risk of contracting diabetes.
According to the American Diabetes Association, the United States had 20.8 million people with the disease in 2006. That number jumped to 23.6 million last year. Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death among Hispanic women and elderly. According to the medical Web site dlife.com, more than 10 percent of all Mexican-Americans older than 20 have the disease.
The rapid spread of diabetes in the country is so dramatic and widespread that even the illness nomenclature had to be changed.
“Among the younger population of America, type 2 diabetes (which used to strike only adults) was unheard of,” LaMarche said. “The disease used to be called juvenile or adult onset diabetes. Now, it’s type 1 and type 2, because all bets are off.”
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