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Dr. Peter Bennett
Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch
National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases
National Institutes of Health
1550 East Indian School Road
Phoenix, AZ 85014
Tel:602-200-5200
Fax:602-200-5225
Email: pbennett@mail.nih.gov
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Peter Bennett, MB, FRCP, Scientist Emeritus
Dr. Bennett has had a long-standing interest in the epidemiology and pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus and its complications. His investigations of type 2 diabetes in the Pima Indians have led to advances in the understanding of many aspects of type 2 diabetes. He and his team of investigators at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Phoenix, Arizona have conducted a longitudinal prospective study of type 2 diabetes among the Pima Indian population of Arizona for 40 years. The Pima have an extraordinarily high prevalence of this disease. Dr. Bennett and his group have published extensively on factors that predict the development of diabetes itself and its complications. These investigations were first to quantify the relationship between glycemic levels and the incidence of specific microvascular complications of diabetes such as retinopathy and nephropathy, thus leading to the development of the criteria for the diagnosis of diabetes that are used today. Cardiovascular disease incidence in the Pima Indian population has increased considerably during the past 35 years and much, if not all of this increase, is due to the epidemic of diabetes that the Pima Indians have experienced during the past half-century. Most of the cardiovascular disease in the Pima Indians is a consequence of the large proportion of the population who now have long-duration type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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