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NAIROBI: Kenyans living in the US are developing diabetes and hypertension at a high rate as they increasingly adopt the lifestyles of their host country.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota, US, investigated groups of African immigrants to the US to find out whether they were exposed to factors that could lead to heart disease, the highest killer of Americans today. The team investigated 996 African immigrants in the US, from Kenyan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Liberia and Sudan, living in Minnesota.
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