Abstract
People who have immigrated to the US from South Asia have a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared with the rest of the population, and public health researchers have been searching for an explanation. Initial results from a study of immigrants from India living in the San Francisco Bay Area suggest a provocative one: exposure to the pesticide DDT (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b03373). Type 2 diabetes in South Asia and in the South Asian diaspora is a large and growing problem. An estimated 80 million people in India have the disease. South Asians are a rapidly growing immigrant group in the US, and 23% of them have type 2 diabetes. “This high risk of diabetes in South Asian immigrants is not explained by obesity,” a condition commonly associated with diabetes, says Michele La Merrill, an environmental toxicologist at the University of California, Davis. “People have been
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