Lifestyle behaviors and ethnic identity among diverse women at high risk for type 2 diabetes

Susan D. Brown, Samantha F. Ehrlich, Ai Kubo, Ai-Lin Tsai, Monique M. Hedderson, Charles P. Quesenberry and Assiamira Ferrara

Social Science & Medicine, 2016, vol. 160, issue C, 87-93

Abstract: Diet and physical activity lifestyle behaviors are modifiable risk factors for type 2 diabetes and are shaped by culture, potentially influencing diabetes health disparities.

Keywords: Ethnic identity; Ethnicity; Race; Diet; Physical activity; Gestational diabetes; Type 2 diabetes; Women’s health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.05.024

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