Ethnic divide for diabetes - City’s Puerto Ricans far more likely to die of illness, study says - Chicago, Illinois

“Steve Whitman, director of the Sinai Urban Health Institute and lead author of the paper, said the diabetes death rates documented in the study for the city’s Puerto Ricans were the highest recorded in the U.S., to his knowledge.

Asked why, he acknowledged that “we don’t know.”

The report suggests a larger-than-average number of Puerto Ricans in Humboldt Park-West Town develop diabetes in the first place, though those results are based on a relatively small group of people responding to a door-to-door survey.”

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