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Comic Strip Helps Raise Diabetes Awareness in the Hispanic Community
To help spread the word about this serious health threat, Baldo co-creators Hector Cantú and Carlos Castellanos partnered with the National Alliance for Hispanic Health
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Diabetes Digest
8 Diabetes News Briefs that Nurses Need to Know About
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Hispanic Health Information Is Just a Phone Call Away
Hispanics continue to face substantial health disparities, including underinsurance, a lack of linguistically and culturally competent health care providers, and disproportionately high rates of serious chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, cancer and HIV/AIDS.
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Resources Roundup 2008
One of the biggest benefits of attending minority nursing association conferences—in addition to all the networking opportunities, educational programming, CEUs and camaraderie, of course—is getting to visit exhibits filled with booth after booth offering free or low-cost minority health resources that you can take home and start using in your practice right away.
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New “Two-in-One” Diabetes Drug Works Twice as Hard
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UAB Receives Grant to Study Diabetes Self-Care Among Black, Caucasian Teens
The National Institute of Nursing Research has given the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) a four-year, $1.3 million grant to study how parents should encourage responsible self-care in adolescents with chronic illnesses such as diabetes.
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UAB Receives Grant to Study Diabetes Self-Care Among Black, Caucasian Teens
The National Institute of Nursing Research has given the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) a four-year, $1.3 million grant to study how parents should encourage responsible self-care in adolescents with chronic illnesses such as diabetes.
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Earth, Wind, Fire and Water
For American Indian and Alaska Native nurses, combining traditional beliefs with modern treatments not only provides culturally competent care but helps keep their heritage alive
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Researchers Identify Gene for Type 2 Diabetes in Mexican Americans
The recent discovery of the major susceptibility gene for type 2 diabetes in Mexican Americans—10.6% of whom are inflicted with the disease—is being hailed as a major accomplishment. This finding, previously considered a genetic impossibility, will ultimately result in medical advancement for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
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American Diabetes Association Supports Increase in Indian Health Service Funding
Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions among Native Americans, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA). Over 12% of all Indian populations in the United States suffer from type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes. The Pima Indians in Arizona have the highest rate of diabetes in the world—about half of adults between the ages of 30 and 64 are diagnosed with the disease.
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“Clair Huxtable” Helps Raise Awareness of the Link Between Heart Disease and Diabetes
Former President Bill Clinton's initiative to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health categorizes cardiovascular disease and diabetes as two separate health issues. Yet the connection between these two conditions is so strong that it is virtually impossible to tackle one without also addressing the other.
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D is for Diabetes--and Disparities
Diabetes is the focus of another recently released major study on the health status of women in the United States.
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New Kidney Disease Detection Guidelines Target Minority Patients
According to the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), one in nine adults in the U.S. has chronic kidney disease (CKD), yet most of them are undiagnosed and are not receiving medical treatment.
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Northern Exposure
Although many researchers still group them together with American Indians, Alaska Natives are finally emerging as a population with its own identity and unique health care needs.
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Hispanics Get “A+” in Diabetes Awareness But “F” in Diabetes Action
A new survey sponsored by the American Heart Association contains good news and bad news for nurses who are working to eliminate diabetes health disparities in Hispanic communities.
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Diabetes Health Literacy Board Hopes to Close Patient Education Gaps
Poor literacy skills and diabetes have two things in common: They are reaching epidemic levels in the U.S. and they affect minority populations disproportionately. Put diabetes and low literacy together and the result is a recipe for disaster.
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What’s New in Diabetes Management
Diabetes is one of the six critical health problems targeted in the federal government’s Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health. If you’re a nurse who is actively engaged in the battle to “close the diabetes gap,” here’s a roundup of some new diabetes management resources you may want to add to your arsenal.
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Multicultural Diabetes Prevention Campaign Offers Resources for Nurses
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), a federally funded program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recently created Small Steps, Big Rewards, billed as the first-ever national multicultural diabetes prevention campaign designed specifically to reach diverse populations that have the highest risk of developing the disease.
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Early Warning
Acanthosis nigricans (AN), a distinctive skin condition that affects Americans of color, can help nurses identify young people at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes--and prevent the future onset of this serious disease.
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Fighting Diabetes Disparities in Communities of Color
From Indian reservations and U.S./Mexico border communities to major urban centers, minority nurses are finding that culturally competent interventions and community outreach are beginning to make a difference in closing the diabetes gap.
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