{"id":172,"date":"2011-06-17T20:17:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T20:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/?p=172"},"modified":"2011-06-17T20:20:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T20:20:42","slug":"type-2-diabetes-an-alarming-disease-in-mexican-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/2011\/06\/17\/type-2-diabetes-an-alarming-disease-in-mexican-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Type 2 Diabetes: An Alarming Disease in Mexican-Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Type 2 Diabetes: An Alarming Disease in Mexican-Americans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Melanie F. Molina<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">University of Texas at Austin, School of Biological Sciences<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a1<em>Atenci\u00f3n<\/em> <em>compadres<\/em>! There\u2019s a new villain in town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It\u2019s a disease doctors are still trying to pin down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Type 2 Diabetes, perhaps it\u2019s hard to believe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But hear it now, before turning to leave!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Diabetes targets everyone; all sizes and races.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Its development, however, has partly a genetic basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Although Mexicans may not be at the greatest hereditary disadvantage,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Delicious food and lack of exercise make the disease in their culture especially hard to manage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">While scientists search frantically to pinpoint the genes,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It\u2019s important that <em>latinos<\/em> make it a routine,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">To resist the temptations of <em>pasteles<\/em> and sweets,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And be physically active, in spite of the heat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For if not, this epidemic will be quite hard to delay,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And as for finding a cure, there will simply be no way.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Melanie F. Molina is a student at The University of Texas at Austin who is interested in the threat diabetes poses on public health. This summer, she is working with Hui-Qi Qu on the genetics of diabetes in Mexican-Americans.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type 2 Diabetes: An Alarming Disease in Mexican-Americans Melanie F. Molina University of Texas at Austin, School of Biological Sciences \u00a0 \u00a1Atenci\u00f3n compadres! There\u2019s a new villain in town. It\u2019s a disease doctors are still trying to pin down. Type 2 Diabetes, perhaps it\u2019s hard to believe. But hear it now, before turning to leave! [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/2011\/06\/17\/type-2-diabetes-an-alarming-disease-in-mexican-americans\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}