Diabetes Statistics With Hispanics
Diabetes in children in the US
The journal Diabetes Care has just published a discussion of results from the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study, titled The Many Faces of Diabetes in AmericanYouth: Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in Five Race and Ethnic Populations. It's a series of articles, one for each race/ethnic group.
The authors describe the study's objective as "to describe childhood diabetes [in children and teenagers less than age 20] as it occurs among the five major race and ethnic groups in the U.S." They evaluated...
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Pre-Diabetes Risks, Symptoms & Prevention
Pre-diabetes is a health condition that carries no symptoms. Commonly referred to as "impaired glucose tolerance," approximately 54 million people in the United States twenty years and... Read more »Meet David Mendosa
...of Hispanic Business magazine for about four years. However, when David was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in February 1994, he began to write entirely about that condition. His articles and... Read more »Gestational Diabetes
Gestational diabetes is diabetes that occurs only during pregnancy. Diabetes is when your blood glucose level is too high. According to the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, between three... Read more »Why do people get diabetes?"
No one knows why people get diabetes. Among the causes of diabetes are genetic or hereditary factors and the environment. Diabetes affects 5% to 7% of the U.S. population. Prevalence in Pima Indians... Read more »Type 2 Diabetes: Risk Factors
Over 19 million Americans have diabetes; up to 95% of these cases are type 2. In addition, 26% of Americans age 20 and older (and 40% of Americans age 65 and older) have impaired fasting... Read more »Images
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