The Yemenites who had been in Israel since the 1930s, according to Cohen’s research, had diabetes rates very similar to those of other Israelis and of populations documented in New York and elsewhere. This rate was fifty times higher than that of the Yemenites who had arrived in Operation Magic Carpet and had been in the country for only half a dozen years when Cohen began his research. Cohen noted that similar disparities in disease rates for hypertension and heart disease had been reported between these two waves of Yemenite immigrants. He and his colleagues then systematically queried the
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