Diagnosing the Legacy: The Discovery, Research, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Youth

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In the late 1980s, pediatric endocrinologists at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg started to notice a new cohort appearing in their clinics for young people with diabetes. Indigenous youths from two First Nations in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were showing up not with type 1 (or insulin-dependent diabetes) but with what seemed like type 2 diabetes, until then a condition that was once restricted to people much older. Investigation led the doctors to be told that something similar had turn into a medical issue among young people of the Pima Indian Nation in Arizona, though, to their knowledge, nobody else. But these youth were just the tip of the iceberg. Over the following couple of decades more children would confront what was once turning into not only a medical but also a social and community challenge. Diagnosing the Legacy is the story of communities, researchers, and doctors who faced—and continue to face—something never seen before: type 2 diabetes in younger and younger people. Through dozens of interviews, Krotz shows the have an effect on of the disease on the lives of individuals and families in addition to the challenges caregivers faced diagnosing and then responding to the complex and perplexing disease, especially in communities far removed from the medical group of workers facilities to be had in the city.

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