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The big idea
Latino adults who obtain a higher level of education than their parents are less likely to have Type 2 diabetes than those who obtain the same educational level or lower. Those are the findings of our peer-reviewed research published in the Annals of Epidemiology.
Using a linked dataset of parents and children from the Sacramento area of California, we tracked how education over generations relates to health. The majority of the Latino families reported being of Mexican heritage. Most of the parents came to the U.S. as adults and either brought their young children with them or had their children in the U.S. later.
We examined 608 adult children to assess the presence of prediabetes and diabetes, and we linked them to 399 of their parents. Some parents were linked to more than one adult child.
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Read full story at The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/more-education-for-mexican-americans-may-mean-less-diabetes-164762