Friday, June 17, 2011

In India, poor health risks rise after move to city

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A study of Indians who migrated from rural to urban areas finds that the longer they live in a city, the worse they score on measures of heart health and diabetes risk, compared to those who remained in rural areas.

Body fat, blood pressure and fasting insulin levels (a marker of diabetes risk) all increased within a decade of moving to a city, and for decades blood pressure and insulin continued to rise above the levels of their rural counterparts. Read more

Source :?empowher.com

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ThinkIndiaFoundation/~3/SwWw8L8DBKE/in-india-poor-health-risks-rise-after-move-to-city.html

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