Diabetes Abstract

Title: Diabetes Abstract
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics | Words: 311 | Pages: 1.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

Diabetes Abstract

Diabetes Joshua Herron Ebony Page 55, March 2000, No. 5, Volume 55 Edward M. Hawthorne Diabetes: AFRO-Americans—Health & hygiene This article by Hawthorne basically talks about how people have a tendency to take diabetes for granted. Diabetes can be a very serious disease. It effects more than 16 million Americans. Of these 16 million, 3 million are Blacks. Diabetes is the seventh-leading killer in America, and is the number one cause for blindness, kidney ailment and non-traumatic amputations in Blacks. One in …showed first 75 words of 311 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 311 total…extreme hunger and irritability, and unexplained weight loss. I feel that the author did a good job of explaining the causes and ways to prevent the disease. I felt that that he could do a better job of explaining or giving more reasons that African-Americans are more susceptible to diabetes. Hopefully in the future science can understand the reasons why this happens and come up with ways to prevent or help the effects of diabetes.

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