Diabetes in Black America: Public Health and Clinical Solutions to a National Crisis

In this comprehensive book, top experts in the filed of diabetes report on the clinical and public health perspective on the prevention, intervention and treatment of diabetes within the African-American community. With more than 30 contributors who are specialists in their fields participating, this book provides the latest information with regard to the diabetes epidemic, the scope and impact of diabetes and its complications on adults, and provides rich discussions across a number of important clinical and public health issues. this is a thorough look into the burden of diabetes within the African-American community, including health issues such as relationship between obesity and diabetes, treatments, family characteristics and family risk, and prevention and treatment through lifestyle-behavioral changes. Diabetes in Black America also goes in-depth into issues facing Black men with diabetes, including erectile dysfunction and mental issues as well as the issues facing Black women, including gestational diabetes.