Identification of High-risk Population and Epidemiological Principle and Terminology T2 DM is a disease of metabolic disorder due to multiple processes of fat, carbohydrate, and protein metabolism. The onset of T2DM is gradual and insidious in nature. According to Muran, Abdlmageed, Iftikhar, and Sagga (2014), T2DM affects both male and female equally, and a majority of diabetic individuals does not have symptoms of the disease and their disease is not diagnosed early until after four to seven years of the disease. T2DM is a substantial national health threat to the world especially, the United States with consequences ranging from neuropathy, retinopathy, end-stage renal diseases, and peripheral vascular disease to deaths
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The total prevalence of diabetes in the United States is increased in individuals of African American, Native American, and Hispanic descents than the Caucasians and the rate is twice as high in female as in male. Another growing population is young people and children who are overweight or obese and their chance of developing diabetes doubles with every 20% of increased body weight and decade of life (Climie, et al.,2015). In 2012, 9.3% or 29.1 million Americans were reported as having diabetes of this number 8.1 million was undiagnosed with the prevalence among older adults (65 years and older) remains high. They accounted for 11.8 million or 25.9% (Palmaer & Clegg, 2015). Each year, the incidence rate is escalating in alarming manners with approximately 1.4 million reported cases of newly diagnosed diabetics. There is an average life expectancy reduction by more than 10 years in individuals that are diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (American Diabetes Association [ADA], 2014). These aftermaths of uncontrolled diabetes have caused the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to continue its outreach prevention efforts: The Healthy People 2020 call for the eliminating health disparity in the diabetes prevention, awareness, and management especially among the minorities (CDC,
The total prevalence of diabetes in the United States is increased in individuals of African American, Native American, and Hispanic descents than the Caucasians and the rate is twice as high in female as in male. Another growing population is young people and children who are overweight or obese and their chance of developing diabetes doubles with every 20% of increased body weight and decade of life (Climie, et al.,2015). In 2012, 9.3% or 29.1 million Americans were reported as having diabetes of this number 8.1 million was undiagnosed with the prevalence among older adults (65 years and older) remains high. They accounted for 11.8 million or 25.9% (Palmaer & Clegg, 2015). Each year, the incidence rate is escalating in alarming manners with approximately 1.4 million reported cases of newly diagnosed diabetics. There is an average life expectancy reduction by more than 10 years in individuals that are diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (American Diabetes Association [ADA], 2014). These aftermaths of uncontrolled diabetes have caused the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to continue its outreach prevention efforts: The Healthy People 2020 call for the eliminating health disparity in the diabetes prevention, awareness, and management especially among the minorities (CDC,