Recent research suggests that excess body fat plus a high stress level may contribute to the occurrence of Diabetes Mellitus type 2 in African American women. This group is reported to have a relatively high incident of the diabetes mellitus type 2.

Dr. Anastasia Georgiades of Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina leads the case study with her colleagues. They had 62 healthy and non-diabetic African women as their case subjects and they were subjected to an emotional stress test. The women recollected stressful events in their life and during the process, the researchers measured each subject’s blood sugar and epinephrine – or the “fight or flight” hormone that is produced during times of stress.

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