Certain races and population groups have a higher risk of getting diabetes. In Southeast Asia, the Indians have diabetes more commonly than any other group. Malays and Indonesians have the next highest incidence of diabetes, and the Chinese have the lowest rate. Even so, diabetes has doubled among the Chinese population of Singapore in the past eight years - a higher increase than in any other racial group.

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It appears that industrialization and the changes it has brought about in society may be a cause of diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes. Some of the chemical poisons or the viruses found in a specific community may trigger off the autoimmune processes which destroy the beta cells in the pancreas. Studies have shown that people who migrate to another country are likely to develop the same risk of diabetes as is found in their adopted country. even moving to the cities appears to increase the risk of diabetes, likely because of changes in diet and other lifestyle habits.

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Is the fairer sex more likely to get type 2 diabetes than the male gender? Apparently not. In a national health survey taken in one Southeast Asian country, the number of men with diabetes was slightly higher than the number of women with the disease. Figures vary from country to country.

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