Although Asian Americans are slim compared to authentic Americans, but in recent findings they are getting diabetes type 2 more than white Americans are getting. And the ratio is increasing day by day.
The research was performing following the data of health survey from government of new york that was from year 1997 to year 2008 which reveals that Asian Americans have a constant growing rate of diabetes type 2 compared to white Americans.
Although diabetes is rising amongst both races but ratio is higher in Asian adults with ratio of 8 % and 6 % among white Americans.
It is believed that diabetes strikes overweight people and Asian Americans are usually not overweight but as we said earlier that recent studies have shown increase in Asian Americans over white ones.
The findings of journal diabetes care says that the history of diabetic patient shows that Asian background is itself a risk factor of diabetes in itself.
Hsin-Chieh further add to the fact that whereas researchers already know that Asians are at high risk of diabetes, but many people are unaware of this fact.
Yeh said that genes are partially involved in the incident of diabetes but it is not the sole cause as combination of both vulnerabilities in genes and particular lifestyle of Asians is also a factor that should be blamed.
Yeh further said that Asians are more at risk of diabetes than Americans because of the fact that the food they eat is actually unhealthy (i.e. some add high amount of salt in the dishes they make, some eat plenty of unhygienic sweets, etc.) hence either they develop high blood pressure and diabetes or just diabetes by eating unhygienic excessive amount of sweets.
If we go in-depth analysis, we will observe that although Asians are slim and smart but there is a lot of fatty deposit around their abdominal organs which is directly a risk factor of diabetes type 2.
Then there is exercise, which is thought to help lower diabetes risk regardless of body weight. Based on health surveys, Asian immigrants to the U.S. are less physically active than native-born non-Asians, Yeh and her colleagues note.
Studies further note that regular exercise can lower the risk of diabetes whether the person is overweight or not. And according to some health surveys, those Asian who have migrated to United States of America are more physically in-active than those non-Asians born native at the United States of America.