[{"command":"openDialog","selector":"#drupal-modal","settings":null,"data":"\u003Cdiv id=\u0022republish_modal_form\u0022\u003E\u003Cform class=\u0022modal-form-example-modal-form ecl-form\u0022 data-drupal-selector=\u0022modal-form-example-modal-form\u0022 action=\u0022\/sl\/article\/modal\/5751\u0022 method=\u0022post\u0022 id=\u0022modal-form-example-modal-form\u0022 accept-charset=\u0022UTF-8\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHorizon articles can be republished for free under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.\u003C\/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp\u003EYou must give appropriate credit. 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These projects have received in total EUR 12 million out of the over EUR 400 million spent by the EU on tackling diabetes and related health projects under its 2007 to 2013 funding programme.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor example, the RODAM project is looking at why Ghanaian people living in Amsterdam, Berlin and London are at greater risk of diabetes than Ghanaians living in Ghana. The study, headed by Professor Karien Stronks, aims to discover the interaction between environment and genes \u2013 a field called epigenetics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProf. Stronks decided to go into the area of health and science at the age of 22, when she came to the conclusion that \u2018your social position determines your health\u2019. \u2018I thought this unjust and for that reason it should be further studied,\u2019 she said. Currently, RODAM has already started the process of data collection.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022img_legend\u0022 style=\u0022float: left;\u0022\u003E \u003Cfigure role=\u0022group\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cimg alt=\u0022Four EU funded projects are looking at how diabetes cases develop in immigrant populations. \u00a9 Sam DCruz \/ Shutterstock.com\u0022 height=\u0022300\u0022 src=\u0022\/research-and-innovation\/sites\/default\/files\/hm\/shutterstock_93647683.jpg\u0022 title=\u0022Four EU funded projects are looking at how diabetes cases develop in immigrant populations. \u00a9 Sam DCruz \/ Shutterstock.com\u0022 width=\u0022200\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cfigcaption class=\u0022italic mb-4\u0022\u003EFour EU funded projects are looking at how diabetes cases develop in immigrant populations. \u00a9 Sam DCruz \/ Shutterstock.com\u003C\/figcaption\u003E\n\u003C\/figure\u003E\n\u003Cem\u003EFour EU funded projects are looking at how diabetes cases develop in immigrant populations.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u00a9 Sam DCruz \/ Shutterstock\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/span\u003EAnother project, called MEDIGENE, looks specifically at the risk of diabetes among immigrants in the Mediterranean region. Researchers are studying Albanians who migrated to Northern Italy; Greek and Turkish communities in Lyon; Romanians who recently migrated to Spain; and immigrants from North Africa living in France.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwo other projects, GIFTS and EPI-MIGRANT, are looking at the genetic and lifestyle predictors to obesity in South Asian people (mainly India, Bangladesh and Pakistan). Both include a focus on life style and nutrition from pre-conception to early childhood. 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