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Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Ethiopian immigrants
A Rubinstein1, E Graf, E Landau
1Department of Medicine C, Rokach (Hadassah) Hospital, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel.
Israel Journal of Medical Sciences
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
The prevalence of diabetes mellitus among 445 new immigrant Ethiopian Jews was studied immediately after their arrival to Israel, and found to be 0.4%. This low prevalence could be attributed to their long trek accompanied by severe malnutrition which caused death to the old, weak and sick, leaving a selectively young and healthy population group.