The Diabetes

Journal of medicine

   Diabetes, often referred by doctors, as diabetes mellitus, describes a group of metabolic diseases in which the person has high blood glucose(blood sugar), either because the hormone insulin production is inadequate, or because the body's cells do not respond properly to insulin, or both.
 

   In this recent article scientist from the U.S have united efforts to describe and mention the achievements of goals in the U.S diabetes care from 1999 to 2010. They analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey(NHANES) and those data were collected from household interviews and from standardized medical examinations and blood sample collections performed in mobile examination centers. With the data the scientist conduct a series of statistical analysis. They found that the proportion of overweight participants decreased, whereas the proportions that were obese increased, as did the proportion of participants taking medications to lower glucose levels and the proportion using insulin. They also found important gaps in care and prevention, 30 to 50% did not  meet individualized targets for glycemic control, blood pressure, or lipid control, and more than 20% remained smokers.

   Those results sound alarming and for me there's to much to do. People need to understand the seriousness of this disease. In a decade there were no change in the consciousness of the American population, which hasn't decreased the prevalence of this disease. I'm looking forward to become a doctor and are this numbers the ones that make me fight. I'm working to be able in the future, to help people understand the importance of the health care. No one is responsible of your own health, except you. So in order to help decreased the prevalence of the diabetes it's important, as a doctor, to stay in touch with the patient and try to help them in the fight with this and all of the chronic disease that haven't found a cure yet.