Chart: The US isn’t good for immigrants when it comes to diabetes

This is the percent of people ages 18 to 64 in the United States ever diagnosed with diabetes, by region of origin and ethnicity or race, 2009-2011 (page 54):

Percent with diabetesImmigrants from a variety of places have a very low incidence of diabetes for up to 10 years. Those who live in the US longer, however, fare much worse. One of two things is going on here. The first could be that people arrive here relatively healthy, and then America is so bad for you that they develop diabetes in large numbers. The second is that they already have diabetes, but it’s undiagnosed, and our care of them is so bad that we’re not picking up on it for at least ten years.

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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