European Background: Tong Xiao Lin

Tong Xiao Lin: The incidence of diabetes increased 15-fold between 1996 and 2005 among Canadians of Chinese origin, but rose only 24 per cent in people with a European background, according to Thursday's study by researchers at Toronto's Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. A patient with diabetes rests his arm on a table for specialist Dr. Tong Xiao Lin during a checkup in Beijing last year. Diabetes rates are increasing among people of Chinese origin in Canada and in China itself. David Gray/Reuters, according to CBC. "That's going to change weight and therefore the risk of diabetes." Chinese-Canadians are at a much higher risk of a diabetes diagnosis despite having lower rates of obesity compared with European Canadians, a new study suggests. "People are increasingly across all subgroups of the population doing less physical activity, being more sedentary, sitting in front of a screen all day, changing their diet," said Baiju Shah, the study's lead author and scientist at ICES. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.