https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220725164932.htm

Allen W. Barton, a professor of human development and family studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the first author of the study, which tracked the health of 342 African Americans for 20 years, from adolescence to their mid- to late twenties. The researchers' goal was to explore links between the individuals' childhood social environment and insulin resistance, a precursor to diabetes where cells don't respond well to insulin or use blood glucose for energy.

The participants lived in rural Georgia, a region with one of the highest poverty rates and shortest life expectancies in the U.S.