Men across a range of ethnicities have a higher prevalence of diabetes: findings from a cross‐sectional study of 500 000 UK Biobank participants

Studies show that white men have a higher prevalence of Type 2 diabetes mellitus than women at a given age and BMI, but equivalent standardized data for other ethnic groups in the UK are sparse.

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