Diabetes: Getting to Know it Better

There are several factors, however, that can increase a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Primary concern and cause of type 2 diabetes is obesity or overweight, people over the normal weight baseline of the BMI spectrum. America has always been known as the country that is two/thirds obese and many of American habits contribute to the following daily bad decisions that seem related to type 2 diabetes. Poor eating habits are the number one cause of obesity and type 2 diabetes, choosing to eat bad food and lots of soda can have tremendous effects on your weight and glucose intake. Watching too much television (T.V.) is another related issue towards diabetes, most likely eating snacks while watching your favorite show or movies. Physical inactivity causes the body to have a high blood glucose causing diabetes; muscles use the glucose through physical activity by helping the hormone insulin absorb glucose into all your body cells. Your muscles use glucose better than it uses fat. Sleeping habits such as sleeping less than 5 hours or more than 9 hours a night can affect the body’s balance of insulin and increase the demand on the pancreas to make it. Lastly, genetics has played a big role in determining if a person is at risk for type 2 diabetes. Your risk is higher if your brother, sister, or parent have type 2 diabetes. Genetics is a factor that is out of our control and it is

Diabetes is a disease where the body is unable to produce or use insulin effectively. Insulin is needed for proper storage and use of carbohydrates. Without it, blood sugar levels can become too high or too low, resulting in a diabetic emergency. It affects about 7.8% of the population. The incidence of diabetes is known to increase with age. It’s the leading cause of end-stage renal disease in the US, and is the primary cause of blindness and foot and leg amputation. It is known to cause neuropathy in up to 70% of diabetic patients. Individuals with diabetes are twice as likely to develop cardiovascular disease. There are two types of diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2.

with evidence that diabetes precursors may even be more common in African American than in

The Characteristics of the diabetes are very distinctive and in some cases they are unnoticed. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2014), recommends individuals contact their physician if they

African Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives living in N.D are twice as likely to have diabetes than Whites.

The impact of diabetes on African Americans is disproportionate. An estimated four million of African Americans with the age of twenty and above are diabetic. They are more prone to have diabetes as compared to non-Hispanic whites. Once an African American reaches the age of 65,

First, for Latinos, studies have found that the prevalence of total diabetes, diagnosed and undiagnosed, among all Hispanic/Latino groups was roughly 16.9 percent of both men and women, compared to 10.2 percent of non-Hispanic whites. However, when looking at Hispanic/Latino groups individually, it found that prevalence varied from a high of 18.3 percent for those of Mexican descent to a low of 10.2 percent for people of South American descent. The study showed 18.1 percent of people of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent; 17.7 percent of Central American descent; and 13.4 percent of Cuban descent living in the United States had type 2 diabetes (Alexandria, 2014). As people believe, also prevalence rose dramatically with age, reaching more than 50 percent for Hispanic/Latino women by the time they reached age 70 and 44.3 percent for men aged 70-74.

Another health issue that African Americans struggle with is diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that involves the body producing high levels of blood glucose levels (Powers, Dodd & Noland, 2006). There are two types of diabetes; type 1 and type 2. Type 1 is known as the juvenile onset diabetes and caused by a lack of insulin production and secretion while type 2 is characterized by deficiency of insulin production, decreased production of insulin and increased insulin production and can usually be controlled by diet and exercise (Smeltzer & Bare, 2003). African Americans are twice as likely to

In the assigned reading article, researchers propose that minority populaces are at higher risk for diabetes than the social majority. This risk is directly linked to a decreased sense of educational attainment and high levels of

There are three different types of diabetes that affect African Americans. The first is Type 1 diabetes, which runs in the history of the family (Baptiste-Roberts, 2007). This is brought on by a breaking

According to the article African American men “, bears a greater burden of type 2 diabetes,” (325). Diabetes is known to have an effect on the individual’s socially, economic and culturally. These factors may include reason as to why diabetes is more prevalent in the males of the African American communities. The article details three main points in which African American men are effected. “ males seek medical care less frequently and at a later point in the course of illness; males generally pay less attention to their diet; and males more often engage in risky behaviors including smoking, alcohol abuse , violence and unsafe driving,”(324). These factors may also include the lack of education and awareness about such disease but also the

The problem that is being researched in the article is type 2 diabetes is a steadily increasing common disease among the general minority population in the United States and is believed to affect at least three hundred million people by the year 2025. Type two diabetes had been reported to be much higher in minorities. The minority population commonly demonstrates higher level of blood glucose than people with Caucasian backgrounds. A study conducted in 2005, reported African Americans were twice likely to die from type 2 diabetes while the Hispanic population reported an estimated 1.6 times were likely to die from type 2 diabetes. Unfortunately those who have type 2 diabetes do not control their blood glucose level and are at greater risk

3. Robbins, JM, Vaccarino, V, Zhang, H, Kasl, SV. "Socioeconomic status and type 2 diabetes in African American and non-Hispanic white women and men: evidence from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey." American Journal of Public Health 91.1 (2001): 76-83.

Diabetes is a metabolic disease in which the body’s inability to produce any or enough insulin causes elevated levels of glucose. Diabetes has been around for a long time, but now it has grown as a national epidemic. Over 29 million people in America have diabetes, 86 million Americans have Prediabetes. Prediabetes is a condition in which blood sugar is high but not high enough to be type 2 diabetes. It is very important to understand diabetes because 1 out of every 4 people you see might have diabetes, so learning what causes diabetes and how to prevent it is important to humans well being. Type 2 diabetes over the years is starting to become more prevalent in children than before. Understanding the basics of diabetes can allow us to better

Diabetes is associated with wide range of complications such as chronic renal failure, blindness, amputations, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and neuropathy (Alotabi, A., et al., 2016). There is no known cure for diabetes, but the disease can be controlled through health management that includes multiple perspectives of care such as medications, blood glucose monitoring, diet, nutrition, screening for long-term complications and regular physical activity (Alotabi, A., et al., 2016). Managing diabetes may be complicated and requires the knowledge and skills of both healthcare providers and the clients. Studies have shown that to prevent or delay diabetic complications due to diabetes, counseling and other lifestyle interventions are the effective therapy. Even with many policies set up for diabetes, 8.1 million Americans are undiagnosed with diabetes mellitus, and approximately 86 million Americans ages 20 and older have blood glucose levels that considerably increase their risk of developing Diabetes Mellitus in the next several years (CDC, 2015). For diabetes care to be successful there needs to be a good understanding of the disease and management by both patients and healthcare providers,