A patient family history plays a great role in providing additional information that is beneficial to the patients care. Family can tell if a person is at the risk of getting a particular disease. The person that I choose for my discussion was my brother. He was diagnosed by his physician of having pre-diabetes. His age, family history, poor diet and lack of physical activity put him at increased risk put him at risk r for getting diabetes. Pre-diabetes is when a person has evaluated blood sugar, but not high enough to be call diabetes (Derakhshan et al., 2015). Because of his risk factor, it put him at increased risk for developing type II diabetes. Type II diabetes is a chronic disease that displays high blood glucose level in a person
