Reconsidering the history of type 2 diabetes in India: Emerging or re-emerging disease.
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en Inglés
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ABSTRACT
The emergence of type 2 diabetes in India, coinciding with the country’s rapid economic development in the past several decades, is often characterized as a modern epidemic resulting directly from westernization. We draw on India’s agricultural, linguistic, medical, economic, religious and gastronomic history to examine the possibility that type 2 diabetes mellitus may have existed in ancient India, having subsequently declined in the two centuries leading up to the present. The implications of such a possibility vis-à-vis the role of westernization in the global diabetes aetiology are discussed. Additionally, an argument is made for careful application of the terms ‘westernization’ and ‘globalization’ in discussions of chronic disease aetiology, where their often totalizing discourses may obscure the sociocultural particularities of manifestations of these conditions in various global arenas.
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IMSEAR (Asia Sudoriental)
Asunto principal:
Composición Corporal
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Humanos
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Estado Nutricional
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Factores de Riesgo
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Historia Antigua
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Historia Medieval
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Historia del Siglo XX
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Historia del Siglo XXI
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Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2
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India
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio de etiología
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Factores de riesgo
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
Inglés
Año:
2008
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
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