By Lynne Chepulis and Sara Mustafa of
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Analysis - For the tens of thousands of New Zealanders who live with type 2 diabetes, managing the chronic condition can start to feel like keeping score.
A patient is given a list of numbers by their doctor. Blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol levels are tracked closely, with targets designed to reduce the risk of complications such as heart attacks, kidney failure, blindness and early death.
In theory, those targets apply equally to everyone. In practice, they are far harder to reach for some New Zealanders than others.
Using health records from more than 57,000 adults with type 2 diabetes, our newly published study found MΔori and Pacific people are much less likely than New Zealand Europeans to meet key clinical targets, even when
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