Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Diabetes is one of the toughest health challenges facing American Indian communities, and it’s a problem that has troubled me deeply for many years. I grew up on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming and I’ve spent most of my professional career trying to improve health conditions for people of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes.
Among American Indian and Alaskan Native adults, the diabetes prevalence rate is nearly 16 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That’s the highest prevalence we see among all U.S. racial and ethnic groups, and is more than double the rate for non-Hispanic whites.
Mortality rates linked to the condition are also soaring, especially among the Northern Plains Tribes. From the years 2000 to 2009, these communities had the highest age-adjusted death rate from diabetes of all the regions covered by the Indian Health Service (IHS).
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwo...s-two-part-look-coalitions-and-culture-157707
Among American Indian and Alaskan Native adults, the diabetes prevalence rate is nearly 16 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That’s the highest prevalence we see among all U.S. racial and ethnic groups, and is more than double the rate for non-Hispanic whites.
Mortality rates linked to the condition are also soaring, especially among the Northern Plains Tribes. From the years 2000 to 2009, these communities had the highest age-adjusted death rate from diabetes of all the regions covered by the Indian Health Service (IHS).
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwo...s-two-part-look-coalitions-and-culture-157707