Incidence and pathophysiology of diabetes in South Asian adults living in India and Pakistan compared with US blacks and whites.
K M Venkat NarayanDimple KondalNatalie DayaUnjali P GujralDeepa MohanShivani A PatelRoopa ShivashankarRanjit Mohan AnjanaLisa R StaimezMohammed K AliHoward H ChangMasood KadirDorairaj PrabhakaranElizabeth SelvinViswanathan MohanNikhil TandonPublished in: BMJ open diabetes research & care (2021)
South Asian adults have lower BMI and are less insulin resistant than US blacks and whites, but have higher diabetes incidence than US whites, especially in subgroups without obesity. Factors other than insulin resistance (ie, insulin secretion) may play an important role in the natural history of diabetes in South Asians.