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Re:India has a hole where its middle class should be by gumby on Saturday January 13, 2018 @10:28AM (#16139898)
It’s a numbers issue. From a small base, any rise is a large percentage. And in India the small bases are large in absolute numbers. So if you have 50M people in your middle class and they drink an increasing number of sugary drinks, the rate of diabetes can shoot up.
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Re:India has a hole where its middle class should be by sizzle on Saturday January 13, 2018 @07:16PM (#16142162)
This is an unsubstantiated claim, see the comment above that referenced NIH studies discussing a genetic link between diabetes w.r.t. a subset of Indians.
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