Reducing Type II Diabetes within our African American Community
According to Healthy People 2020 (2014), diabetes affects over 29 million people in the United States, with another estimated 28 percent of the population having undiagnosed cases. Of those at risk, African Americans are almost 2 times more likely to be diagnosed as opposed to their Caucasian counterparts. Many preventable associated factors include limited knowledge regarding disease processes, healthy diet, and limited knowledge of one’s own body. Our goal is to provide our African American community the opportunity to learn more about diabetes and how to reduce the risk of type II diabetes and signs and symptoms of diabetes during a community event.
Short Term Goal
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Lastly, our brochure would highlight the most common signs and symptoms of hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia including life threatening signs that should be reported immediately. In order to substantiate our teachings we will ask those that visit our table to complete a 5 question quiz that on completion will be awarded a pedometer to assist in a new walking program.
Evidence-based research was done in regards to combining diet and exercise programs to lower the risk of type II diabetes. They discovered that those that undertook these programs were able to see a decrease in periods of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia and were able to maintain normoglycemic levels more easily. In addition they were able to decrease cardiovascular risk and lower blood pressure levels. (Healthy People 2020, 2014)
Health Promotion Strategies
Objective One At least two community members that approach our table will be able to locate a healthy food swap in our brochure and give reasoning why it is a better choice than a non-healthy food choice.
Strategies
Imbalanced Nutrition: More than body requirements will be our focus regarding objective one. The most common reason that people develop diabetes mellitus is due to poor diet control. Diabetes mellitus is caused when the insulin production is stopped or drastically slowed in the pancreas. This stops the ability for sugars to be transported into the cells for
lifestyles are linked to the early onset of type 2 diabetes. There are many new programs being
Diabetes Type 2 1.Diabetes is considered a life style disease because it is not something you were born with it is something you bring upon yourself, stress, don't enough exercise, eating too much of the wrong foods, pregnancy or family history cause this particular disease. 2. Type 2 diabetes, or non-insulin-dependent diabetes, is the most common form of diabetes. It effects the respiratory system In Type 2 diabetes, either the body does not produce enough insulin or the cells neglect the insulin. Insulin is needed for the body to be able to use sugar.
Diabetes (DM) is one the many initiatives that Healthy People 2020 have been focusing on to reduce this disease morbidity and mortality rates throughout the communities. In the United States alone, the number of individuals diagnosed with diabetes has increased from 1.5 million in 1958 to 25.8 million in 2011. The Center for Disease and prevention (CDC) also estimates in the year 2011, 79 million people age 20 and over were noted to have pre-diabetes, in which the blood sugar was higher than normal levels, however, have not reached the level for a diagnosis of DM. Eleven percent of those individuals with pre-diabetic readings of raised blood glucose will progress in full blown diabetes a matter of three years. Healthy People 2020 have used evidence –based practices to aid in the prevention and treatment of diabetes. Evidence have shown by simply modifying one’s lifestyle such regular exercising and healthy eating have been recognized to effectively prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes in high-risk persons. Case in point, the Diabetes Prevention Program research trial revealed that the utilization of lifestyle interferences had its utmost impact in elderly adults and was also effective in all racial groups.
Type 2 diabetes is a polygenic, complex disease that has become a worldwide health crisis. According to the World Health Organization over 422 million people in the world had this disease in 2014 (1), the Center for Disease Control and Prevention stated that in the United States alone 29 million people had diabetes in 2014 (2). While the genetic predisposition contributing to the diabetes phenotype is not fully understood to date it still remains an area of active research. There are also various environmental factors that contribute stress to the glucose homeostasis system that provide a different approach in understanding this disease. Comprehending the pathogenesis of the disease has been an area of constant research for decades. There is hope that pharmaceutical developments can follow along and find medical treatments that can target the key pathogenic elements of this disease.
Assessing the target population by detecting glucose abnormalities by measuring HbA1c can significantly benefit individuals from primary prevention through risk factor modification and may impact those undiagnosed and facilitate introduction of diabetes prevention at a public level.. Due to socioeconomic disadvantages and lack of access to care, vulnerable populations such as minorities are more likely to develop diabetes. Thus, interventions which prevent the development of the disease and ensure adequate and appropriate management must be implemented to reduce the burden of T2D. Diabetes education, self-management education, and adequate access to health care are considered key factors to achieving
Type 2 diabetes has been a rising issue in today’s society. It has been found in many people in America at younger ages. Now that insurance companies are requiring screening to be done every year to receive reduced the monthly payments. Type 2 diabetes has affected my family just recently. My husband was diagnosed last February. He has struggled with maintaining his blood sugars over that last year. It is a hard diagnosis to make accommodations to. It is a big life style change for not only the diabetic, but also their family. Diet, exercise and family history play big roles in the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes, which is also known as diabetes mellitus, is described as a group of metabolic diseases where a person has high blood glucose. This is caused by insulin production becoming inadequate (MacGill, 2015). In the United States alone almost 30 million adults and children have diabetes with around 86 million having prediabetes. This leading it to be one of the primary causes of death for 69,071 Americans each year. Studies show that Hispanics and Non Hispanic Blacks are at a higher risk of becoming diabetic compared to other races such as Asian Americans, Central and Southern Americans, and Cubans.
An hour after the patient consumed glucose, their results climax to 1.5 absorbance showing their body has consumed it all, but has not been able to process it completely. Right after the results climax, the blood glucose levels begin to decrease and return back to normal. It is not safe for this process to take this long because the more glucose that is in the patient’s body for a long period of time, the more likely the patient is to suffer from damaged blood vessels, organs, and many other complications.
Type 2 Diabetes also known as non-insulin-dependent diabetes, the most common diabetes, affecting 95% of the 29.1 million Americans or 9.3% of the diabetic population of United States in 2012.
Canagliflozin and Cardiovascular and Renal Events in Type 2 Diabetes; Bruce Neal, M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D., Vlado Perkovic, M.B., B.S., Ph.D., Kenneth W. Mahaffey, M.D., Dick de Zeeuw, M.D., Ph.D., Greg Fulcher, M.D., Ngozi Erondu, M.D., Ph.D., Wayne Shaw, D.S.L., Gordon Law, Ph.D., Mehul Desai, M.D., and David R. Matthews, D.Phil., B.M., B.Ch; New England Journal of Medicine
Being diagnosed with diabetes is devastating. But I tell you, having a doctor run through a long list of inevitable health concerns that you’re likely to face as a result of this disease is sobering. Walking out of the clinic with a comprehensive list of medications in my hand soon drove home the seriousness of the disease. I needed to find a better option, and to take back control of my health. Diabetes Destroyer helped me to do just that.
Diabetes and obesity have become a worldwide epidemic affecting over 370 million people. These diseases have become known as Diabesity the combination of diabetes and obesity because between 80 and 90 percent of people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes – the most common form of diabetes, are also diagnosed as being obese. The rise of Type 2 diabetes and obesity can be linked to the modern advances and conveniences that we all have grown to know and love, and the consumption of high fat and processed foods and lack of physical activity and regular exercise. Among diabetics obesity increases the risk of heart disease, strokes and cancer.
The last question asked was to find out what other people thought about diseases that are not well known. Some of the suggestions from the 18 to 29 age group were that not many have the disease which means that if more people had these unknown diseases then more awareness will be raised thus resulting in them being known. Another reason given was that people do not learn enough about them and
Current theories link the cause of diabetes, singly or in combination, to genetic, autoimmune, viral, and environmental factors (obesity, stress). Regardless of its cause, diabetes is primarily a disorder of glucose metabolism related to absent or insufficient insulin supplies and/or poor utilization of the insulin that is available. The two most common types of
There is a direct association between hyperglycemia and physiological and behavioral responses. During hyperglycemia, the brain recognizes it and sends a message through nerve impulses to pancreas and other organs to decrease its effect (Baynes, 2015). The autoimmune destruction of pancreatic β-cells, leads to a deficiency of insulin secretion which results in the metabolic derangements associated with T1DM. Normally, hyperglycemia leads to reduced glucagon secretion; however, in patients with T1DM, glucagon secretion is not suppressed by hyperglycemia (Holt, 2004). The resultant inappropriately elevated glucagon levels exacerbate the metabolic defects due to insulin deficiency. In type 2 diabetes these mechanisms break down, with the