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Diabetes Case Study Essay

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Diabetes is a growing health disaster primarily in the developed countries. The prevalence and number of diabetes cases are increasing steadily, and research shows that 422 million people in the world are living with the disease (Schneiderman et al., 2014). The cause of diabetes is multifactorial, but one of the major risk factors is being obese or overweight. Diabetes caused about 1.5 million deaths due to its complications and also 2.2 million more deaths because of its risk of cardiovascular and stroke complications (American Diabetes Association, 2013). Diabetes is one of many diseases whose incidence and prevalence has been studied among the Hispanics living in the United States. A longitudinal study conducted by the Center for Disease Control and prevention (2015) indicated that there is a generally increasing trend in the number of reported cases of T2DM among the Hispanics living in the United States from 6.0% in 1997 to about 9.1% in 2013. Notably, while these rates were a generalization of the Hispanics, the various heterogeneous groups within the larger Hispanics grouping had different rates of prevalence. Particularly, those …show more content…

Moreover, data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2016) indicates that Hispanics are at a 50% higher risk of dying from diabetes as compared to the whites. Notably, this rate is distributed over the large number of Hispanic subgroups that include Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Central and South Americans, and Cubans among others. Therefore, due to the economic and social status of these subgroups, the incidence of diabetes mainly due to genetic and lifestyle causes, finding cost effective ways to tackle this growing epidemic of diabetes should be most important to the federal, state, and the health community at

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