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Alarming levels of diabetes found within indigenous adults : - Coggle…

- - - - The presence of diabetes among Canadian Aboriginals is on the rise.
      - high rates of type II diabetes in children
      - more Aboriginal women are developing gestational diabetes during pregnancy
      - risk factors include: diet, physical inactivity, increased BMI, obesity and genetics
      - environmental factors include: decreased access to health care
      - The causes of type 2 diabetes are largely related to economic development. Urbanisation, mechanisation and globalisation lead to reduced physical activity and a diet that contains more fat and salt, which in turn lead to obesity and raised blood pressure
      - Indigenous people in Canada bear a disproportionate burden of diabetes due to the complex interaction of multiple determinants of health, many of which are rooted in colonial processes and structures that have altered socio-economic, political and cultural systems
      - Sixties Scoop, place a big part of diabetes in Indigenous people. Sixties Scoop caused a lot of issues like environmental factors, such as being overweight and inactive.