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Juvenile Diabetes among Young African Americans in the United States
Jennifer A.
Social, Behavioral, and Cultural Factors in Public Health
Description of the Problem and Population:
Diabetes is a chronic disease, in which high level of sugar is found in the blood stream. There are 3 forms of diabetes Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational Diabetes (found in pregnant woman). The Focus of this research paper is Type 1 diabetes mellitus, which was previously recognized as juvenile diabetes, is usually found in both children and adults. Research has been done across America in order to determine the increasing prevalence of the disease in which people are being affected, those that are unaware of and or undiagnosed, related complications that result in increased mortality rates (Harris, 1998). “Several national sample surveys are performed in the U.S. each year by the National Center for Health Statistics, and the data derived from these surveys have been used by the National Institutes of Health's National Diabetes Data Group” (Harris, 1998). Diabetes Type 1 prevalence continues to grow quite rapidly in the United States. The largest populations with diabetes are unaware that they may have adapted this chronic disease, creating the biggest burden for the United States population.
Type 1 Diabetes Found In Youth
Type 1 diabetes mellitus has been increasing worldwide, and it appears that children under the age of five are being diagnosed as rapid as the disease is growing (Derraik, Reed, Jefferies, Cutfeild &Hofman, 2012). Researchers are looking answers in order to determine why the prevalence of the disease continues to grow and reasons why children are being diagnosed with this chronic disease. Researchers are relating the increase prevalence of the disease to an “accelerator hypothesis,” which predicts that the higher the BMI at a young age, the higher the risk for a young individual to be diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. (Derraik, Reed, Jefferies,...