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Diagnosing the Legacy - The Discovery, Research, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Youth (Paperback)
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Diagnosing the Legacy - The Discovery, Research, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Youth (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 830
You Save R132 (18%)
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In the late 1980s, pediatric endocrinologists at the Children's
Hospital in Winnipeg began to notice a new cohort appearing in
their clinics for young people with diabetes. Indigenous youngsters
from two First Nations in northern Manitoba and northwestern
Ontario were showing up not with type 1 (or insulin-dependent
diabetes), but with what looked like type 2 diabetes, until then a
condition that was restricted to people much older. Investigation
led the doctors to learn that something similar had become a
medical issue among young people of the Pima Indian Nation in
Arizona though, to their knowledge, nobody else. But these youth
were just the tip of the iceberg. Over the next few decades more
children would confront what was turning into not only a medical
but also a social and community challenge. Diagnosing the Legacy is
the story of communities, researchers, and doctors who faced-and
continue to face-something never seen before: type 2 diabetes in
younger and younger people. Through dozens of interviews, Krotz
shows the impact of the disease on the lives of individuals and
families as well as the challenges caregivers faced diagnosing and
then responding to the complex and perplexing disease, especially
in communities far removed from the medical personnel a facilities
available in the city.
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