… insulin helps cells grab and take up glucose in the blood.
Other factors besides diabetes such as poor glycemic control and elevated lipids may put Hispanic youth with type 1 and type 2 diabetes at risk for future diabetes-related complications.
There are more than 50 million Hispanics/Latinos currently living in the United States, making up about 16 percent of the population. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that by 2050, one in three people living in the United States will be of Hispanic/Latino origin, including such diverse subgroups as Puerto Rican, Mexican, Cuban, Central and South Americans. But, wrote the authors of a commentary being published in this issue of Diabetes Care, “the differences in diabetes and obesity prevalence among Latino subgroups are masked when all individuals are combined into a single group.”
