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Barriers to Improving Diabetes Care for BlacksIn the spring of 1989, the University of Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center (MDRTC) convened a Task Force on Diabetes and the Black Population.This editorial is based on that task force report, which was issued on 15 January 1990.The mission of the task force was to identify potential barriers to the translation of scientific knowledge into improved health care and health for blacks with diabetes.Although it is known that diabetes affects a disproportionate number of black Americans, there is a paucity of information about the causes and effects of this burden.We hope this editorial contributes to a dialogue within the diabetes community that will lead to an increasingly articulated and tangible commitment to reducing the disproportionate burden that diabetes places on African Americans and other minorities in the United States.
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