- Lifestyle medicine and the path to type 2 diabetes remission
Diabetes is a defining disease of the 21 st century because of rising prevalence, a relationship with obesity, and an enormous health impact: Over 38 million people in the U S have diabetes, and it is the eighth leading cause of death Of all people with diabetes, 90% to 95% have T2D
- Diabetes and Black African Americans - Office of Minority Health
In 2023, non-Hispanic Black or African American adults were 1 4 times more likely than non-Hispanic white adults to be diagnosed with diabetes 1; In 2021, non-Hispanic Black or African Americans were 40% more likely than non-Hispanic whites to die from diabetes 2
- Black Lives Matter: tackling racial and ethnic inequalities . . .
The well-publicised diabetes-related COVID-19 morbidity and mortality data disproportionately affecting Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups highlight contemporaneous inequalities in diabetes-related health care 5 Recent evidence from an observational cohort study on ethnicity in patients hospitalised for COVID-19 infection in the West
- The challenge of diabetes in the Black community needs . . .
According to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health, 13 4% of Black men and 12 7% of Black women have been diagnosed with diabetes Combined, their rate is 60% higher than that of white people In the U S , Black people are twice as likely as their white counterparts to die of diabetes
- Coping With Discrimination Among African Americans With Type . . .
Type 2 diabetes undermines diabetes-related health outcomes among African Americans, who have a disproportionately high incidence of the disease Experiences of discrimination are common among African Americans and compound diabetes-related stress, exacerbating poor health outcomes
- Type 2 Diabetes Management Barriers in People of Color
Type 2 diabetes must be managed daily, which often consists of blood glucose monitoring, diet, exercise, and other lifestyle factors Without proper management, chronically elevated blood sugars (hyperglycemia) can cause damage to the body, including the eyes, heart, kidneys, and feet
- Black Diabetic Lives Matter - PMC
As Hope Feldman, CRNP, FNP-BC, vice chair of the ADA’s Primary Care Advisory Group, so eloquently stated during the recent Diabetes Is Primary virtual professional education program , “We, as a primary care community, recognize that racial disparities and inequities disproportionately affect the burden of diabetes on our communities of
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