{"id":156904,"date":"2011-11-24T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bdaa4af5-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2011-11-24T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T15:51:00","slug":"bdaa4b09-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bdaa4b09-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Statistics point to diabetes crisis in the region\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commonwealth Diabetes Coalition chair John Oliver Gonzales encouraged the community to live healthy amid \u201ccrisis statistics\u201d indicating increase in the number of individuals affected by diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiabetes is of epidemic proportion in the Pacific and we are in the Pacific,\u201d said Gonzales.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales, who warned that diabetes affects every part of the body, said a study called Family Investigation of Nephropathy and Diabetes or the FIND project conducted by Dr. William Knowler under the National Institutes of Health support his concern.<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted in April 2009, involved 2,326 samples, 454 of which are from Saipan while 1,872 are from Guam.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 454 samples from Saipan, 139 or 31 percent had a history of diabetes. In Guam, 501 out of 1,872 or 37 percent had a history of diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>The number of individuals receiving dialysis based on the samples was 78 or 17 percent on Saipan while Guam showed 296 or 16 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to wake up,\u201d said Gonzales. \u201cWe need to incorporate green eating, green living. We need to start eating raw vegetables, no more processed foods, no more imported goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonwealth Diabetes Coalition chair John Oliver Gonzales encouraged the community to live healthy amid \u201ccrisis statistics\u201d indicating increase in the number of individuals affected by diabetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}