TY - JOUR
T1 - Is being Hispanic a risk factor for non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM)?
AU - Chakraborty, Bandana M.
AU - Fernández-Esquer, Maria Eugenia
AU - Chakraborty, Ranajit
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2007 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1999/3
Y1 - 1999/3
N2 - The objective of this paper is to critically assess the basis of the hypothesis that the ethnicity of Hispanics is by itself a risk factor of NIDDM. Showing that the definition of the term Hispanics has both operational and methodological problems, it is argued that in the United States, a group identified by this term is genetically, as well as culturally, heterogeneous. Further, the actual risk factors of NIDDM may simply co-vary with the ethnicity of Hispanics, so that the notion that this ethnicity is a stand-alone independent risk factor of NIDDM may be too simplistic.
AB - The objective of this paper is to critically assess the basis of the hypothesis that the ethnicity of Hispanics is by itself a risk factor of NIDDM. Showing that the definition of the term Hispanics has both operational and methodological problems, it is argued that in the United States, a group identified by this term is genetically, as well as culturally, heterogeneous. Further, the actual risk factors of NIDDM may simply co-vary with the ethnicity of Hispanics, so that the notion that this ethnicity is a stand-alone independent risk factor of NIDDM may be too simplistic.
KW - Ethnicity
KW - Genetic Heterogeneity
KW - Hispanics
KW - NIDDM
KW - Risk Factor
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M3 - Article
C2 - 10421091
AN - SCOPUS:0033094709
SN - 1049-510X
VL - 9
SP - 278
EP - 283
JO - Ethnicity and Disease
JF - Ethnicity and Disease
IS - 2
ER -