Study Of Obesity Among Africans

Study Of Obesity Among Africans.
A genetic transfiguring associated with an increased endanger of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and other health problems is base in Africans and people of African descent worldwide, according to a new study Dec 2013. The findings may worker explain why Africans and people of African descent are more likely to develop pluck disease and diabetes than many other racial groups, the Weill Cornell Medical College researchers said. The evolving in the ApoE gene is linked to increased levels of triglycerides, which are fats in the blood associated with conditions such as obesity, diabetes, feat and heart disease.

The researchers' analysis of worldwide text revealed that the "R145C" variant of the ApoE gene is found in 5 percent to 12 percent of Africans and the crowd of African descent, especially those from sub-Saharan Africa. The variant is rare in kinsmen who are not African or of African descent. "Based on our findings, we estimate that there could be 1,7 million African-Americans in the United States and 36 million sub-Saharan Africans worldwide with the variant," cramming senior initiator Dr Ronald Crystal, chairman of genetic medicine at Weill Cornell, said in a college rumour release.