Diabetes in Hispanic Culture
ABSTRACT This paper discusses how diabetes is disease that affects most Hispanics/Latinos. It will discuss their statistics against the disease and other health problems it causes. It will tell you how serious of a disease it is but with detection and treatment may save lives.
KEYWORDS: diabetes, Hispanic/Latino, disease, detection
The Effects That Diabetes Have on Hispanics/Latinos in the United States and the Risks They Face as a Community Research
Diabetes in Latino/Hispanics is a major health problem in the United States. It is a serious disease that if undetected can kill and cause other serious health problems. Latinos and Hispanics are at a higher risk of getting and dying from diabetes. Although it is a very serious matter and deadly disease the Hispanics there are ways to protect them and help them live with it if detected in early stages and treated properly.
Hispanics and Latinos are at a greater risk of getting diabetes and twice as likely as other communities to have other complications or diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure, blindness, kidney disease, and nerve damage. Latinos and Hispanics are 1.7 times more likely to get treatment for end-stage renal disease caused by diabetes than white Americans. Diabetes also has an early rate it develops in Latinos and Hispanics than in other communities. In Hispanics and Latinos most of them get diagnosed with diabetes around the age of 20 and most of them will have it between the ages of thirty and fifty. Mexican Americans are twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes by a physician as non-Hispanics and have a 50% more chance of dying from diabetes than non-Hispanic whites. You may wander to yourself why diabetes is more prevalent in Hispanics and Latinos than Americans. Diabetes can and most of the time runs in the family, so if your family has a history of diabetes you need get checked by a physician regularly for the disease. Physicians and researchers believe that certain
KEYWORDS: diabetes, Hispanic/Latino, disease, detection
The Effects That Diabetes Have on Hispanics/Latinos in the United States and the Risks They Face as a Community Research
Diabetes in Latino/Hispanics is a major health problem in the United States. It is a serious disease that if undetected can kill and cause other serious health problems. Latinos and Hispanics are at a higher risk of getting and dying from diabetes. Although it is a very serious matter and deadly disease the Hispanics there are ways to protect them and help them live with it if detected in early stages and treated properly.
Hispanics and Latinos are at a greater risk of getting diabetes and twice as likely as other communities to have other complications or diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure, blindness, kidney disease, and nerve damage. Latinos and Hispanics are 1.7 times more likely to get treatment for end-stage renal disease caused by diabetes than white Americans. Diabetes also has an early rate it develops in Latinos and Hispanics than in other communities. In Hispanics and Latinos most of them get diagnosed with diabetes around the age of 20 and most of them will have it between the ages of thirty and fifty. Mexican Americans are twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes by a physician as non-Hispanics and have a 50% more chance of dying from diabetes than non-Hispanic whites. You may wander to yourself why diabetes is more prevalent in Hispanics and Latinos than Americans. Diabetes can and most of the time runs in the family, so if your family has a history of diabetes you need get checked by a physician regularly for the disease. Physicians and researchers believe that certain