UAB receives $3.7 million to study diabetes in minority youths

By: Emma Shepard

The prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in youths is increasing in the United States, primarily among minorities, with Black and Hispanic youths showing the greatest increase. Neither the reason for the increase nor the mechanism underlying the disproportionate risk in minority youths is known.

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have received more than $3.7 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the increasing prevalence of diabetes in youths as part of a nationwide consortium. Barbara Gower, interim chair and professor in the UAB Department of Nutrition Sciences, and Dr. Ambika Ashraf, director of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes at UAB and Children’s of Alabama, will lead the UAB site.

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