Professor Mike Kelly, Director of the Centre for Public Health at NICE explained:
“The point at which the level of body fat becomes risky to health
varies between ethnic groups. Healthcare workers should apply lower
thresholds to people from black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups
than to those of white European descent. Excess body fat contributes to
more than half of cases of type 2 diabetes, one in five of heart disease
and between 8% and 42% of certain cancers (breast, colon and
endometrial)[1].
The number of people affected by these health conditions is far greater
among black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups - despite rates of
obesity among these groups being similar to the white population[2]”.
In the UK, people of black African and African-Caribbean origin are
three times more likely to have type 2 diabetes than the white
population[3]. Type 2 diabetes is also more common among Chinese people[4]. In addition, people from all of these groups are more at risk of stroke[5].
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