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Diabetes warning

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Diabetes warning

Poor diet, obesity and a genetic disposition have been advanced as reasons a large number of Pacific people develop Type 2 diabetes, which increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, lower-limb amputation and kidney failure. This 2008 poster showing a Pacific woman on a dialysis machine sought to raise awareness of the health risks of diabetes.

Poster courtesy of Let's Beat Diabetes

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Counties Manukau District Health Board

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Colin Tukuitonga, Pacific Island health – Diseases and disabilities, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/27755/diabetes-warning (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Colin Tukuitonga, published 17 February 2011, updated 9 January 2019.