Diabetes has become the seventh leading cause of deaths among people in the U. S. and its still on the rise. Approximately 16 million (16,000,000) people have diabetes in the U.S., estimate two million African American have it and one million Hispanics have this disease. Between 90 and 95 percent of people with diabetes have type two diabetes where there body makes insulin but the insulin doesn’t wo

Type 2 diabetes is the most common in people age 40 and older mainly because when you grow older you may become less active and become overweight or obesity. Some people with type2 diabetes need more insulin than their pancreases can supply this mostly is in people with type 1 diabetes where there body becomes dependent on insulin to control their blood sugars.

Most people at risk for type 2 diabetes are patients with a family history of diabetes, a history of gestational diabetes in family, or women who have given birth to a baby over 9 pounds. Other people at risk for this disease are Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, minority groups, other European countries such as Sweden or Finland and those who have a history of hypertension. There are an increasing number of people with diabetes especially with type 2 diabetes because more teens and children are being diagnosed with this disease. Now people are often diagnosed in there 20s or 30s and some in there teens. The longer people have diabetes the more likely they are to have complications from it and won’t have complications till about 10 to 15 years after you developed diabetes. Some complications of type 2 diabetes are premature heart disease, autoimmune disease, stroke there were more than 11,000 diabetes related deaths from strokes each year, heart attack or heart disease causes more than 77,000 deaths among with people diabetes, pancreatic failure or kidney failure 4 times more common in blacks than whites and 4 to 6 times more common in Hispanics and American Indians, nerve damage (neuropath), about 1out of 10 people with type 2 have kidney disease (nephropathy), eye disease (retinopathy), blood vessel disease (atherosclerosis), amputations each year there are 54,000 people who lose a foot or leg from complications or diabetes and blindness is the leading cause of diabetes in people 25-74. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention between 12,000 and 24,000 people become blind because of the disease. More than 30,000 people develop kidney failure and more than 80,000 people have lower extremity amputations because of complications with diabetes. Also there are many emotions that people with diabetes can have some of the most common are denial, anger, fear, frustrated, sadness, relief, hope, and depression.

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