Azúcar, Azúcar... una enfermedad llamada diabetes

Diabetes, a millennial sickness, is examined in this essay by four Mexican scientists, two of them U.S. residents: Lydia Aguilar-Bryan, Marcia Hiriart Urdanivia, Israel Lerman Garber and Gabriela Loperena Oropeza. It is interesting to note that even as advances in medical science have grown a great...

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Autores principales: Águilar Bryan, Lydia, Hiriart Urdanivia, Marcia, Lerman Garber, Israel, Loperena Oropeza, Gabriela
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe 2010
Acceso en línea:http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/archipielago/article/view/20139
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=mx/mx-008&d=article20139oai
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Sumario:Diabetes, a millennial sickness, is examined in this essay by four Mexican scientists, two of them U.S. residents: Lydia Aguilar-Bryan, Marcia Hiriart Urdanivia, Israel Lerman Garber and Gabriela Loperena Oropeza. It is interesting to note that even as advances in medical science have grown a great deal, life expectancy has also grown; paradoxically, chronic degenerative sicknesses, such as diabetes, are still prevalent, with 14.1% of the Mexican population over 20 years old affected.