Diabetes between races
April 11th, 2012 by armandoromero001
Diabetes among different races
What damages children these days? Candy and sweets right, of course, the one person that always says we have a sweet tooth in us. Among different races are a rare look how what race are more tend to get diabetes and what town they live in, but also have the severe effect of the troubling cost of the disease. Some people say it’s the parents fault that their child gets the disease, and others say its genetics like it’s passed down from generation to generation. I researched this disease because my own mother is affected by diabetes, and has to inject herself everyday with insulin to keep her blood sugar in check. So you might say this topic I chose hits close to home! Among the races in Massachusetts I picked three, white, black, Hispanic/ Latinos in two different towns, Brookline, Salem, and the state of Massachusetts. The different percentages of diabetes in each town, depending on race, and totals, not by age. When I began this study of diabetes, it troubled me that the most that get diabetes are the minorities, White people get it less than Blacks and Hispanic/Latinos, why is this case like this? I ask you as the reader to understand these numbers that I got off the MassCHIP, Department of public health shows us statistics on the problem in two different towns and the State in general. In Salem Hispanics/Latinos are in higher percentage’s to have diabetes then whites and blacks. The Black population was not available for that town. In Brookline, the numbers were flipped, but except one, the whites again, had the lower percentage of diabetes in that town. Black and Hispanic/Latinos had the higher rates of diabetes in the town of Brookline, but Blacks had the highest with 11.8% over the Hispanics/Latinos that had 9.0%. In the State of Massachusetts, whites had the lowest and the Hispanics/Latinos had the second lowest, African-Americans have the highest percentages of diabetes in the State. I read in articles that the State of Massachusetts have banned sodas and candy machines in schools, to help protect the kids from eating bad junk food, but also help to fight against child obesity. The different patterns I see in this chart helps me judge what role does each race have in these towns, for example, look at Salem, it has no percentages for Blacks, is this because there is a small population of Blacks in Salem? The Hispanics/Latinos are high percentage in Salem, and I figured Salem to be a rich town compared to Brookline. Brookline is a rich town, mostly populated with Whites than minorities, just because the population is mostly White Jewish. I grew up in Brookline, but in the projects, yes Brookline has projects, or housing authority. Most of people that lived in the projects were Hispanics/Latinos and Blacks. Living in the projects meant of eating junk food and candy. Me and my best friend always ate candy, every day, to school, during school and after, and he was a minority also, he was Black. Is this common, that Blacks and Hispanics/Latinos have a higher risk of getting diabetes, just because where they live and how much wealth we have? The numbers are right in front of you, and they don’t lie, or maybe they do, or maybe they messed up? Is the case of the Whites having diabetes it less, because they have better health insurance? I Being a Latino gets me worried about family and myself, to watch the sweets, diet and exercise. These diseases already is affecting my own family and potentially harm another in the future, this makes me think about everything, because the disease can kill you or a loved one. Eat healthier and watch what you eat, the pattern has it that minorities get diabetes more than Whites, and the numbers keeps growing.
Diabetes, all ages,
Town, State.
Salem Brookline Massachusetts
6.9 5.9 7.0
White (5.2-8.6) (5.1-6.8) (6.7-7.3)
NA 11.8 11.0
Black (NA-NA) (9.8-13.8) (9.4-12.5)
11.2 9.0 9.3
Hispanic (4.6-17.8) (6.7-11.2) (8.2-10.3)
Source: MassCHIP, Department of Public Health. Found at: http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/researcher/communityhealth/masschip/topics/Diabetes-data.html#cities_towns
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