Diabetes Prevalence in the Somali Community
Words: 1384 Pages: 5 4517According to the American Diabetes Association, as of 2015, approximately 30 million Americans were living with diabetes and nearly 1.5 million new cases were being diagnosed annually (American Diabetes Association, 2018). While these figures represent the sum of all genders, ages, and races of patients affected by the disease, there remains some disparity in the number of affected patients in each category. When compared to the makeup of the general population, one such category in which we see a correlation […]