Lactose intolerance

MedlinePlus Genetics, National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, 2024

The NIH reference on lactose intolerance: about 65% of people worldwide lose much of their ability to digest lactose after infancy, from roughly 5% of people of Northern European descent to 70 to 100% in East Asian populations.

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