Introduction The disease Diabetes is named for one of its symptoms. It is a Greek word derived from the verb diabainein, meaning siphon or pass-through which makes reference to the excessive amount of urine that individuals stricken with the disease were known to pass. This disease results when there is a high level of sugar in the blood for an extended period of time. This paper is to review diabetes being a chronic disease focusing on Angelo Reyes as a case study. His biography was retrieved from neighborhood, a website where different case studies were being discussed. In this paper, an overview of incidence of diabetes in the United States is reviewed. Other topics covered includes; the typical presenting signs of diabetes, potential effects of diabetes on the body as a chronic process, teaching requirements with two measurable learning objectives from each of the domains and the psychosocial challenges that patients like Angelo Reyes encounter as a result of this health condition.
Diabetes is a disease that affects 25.8 million people in the United States alone. Data from the 2011 National Diabetes fact sheet released by Center for Disease Control on the 26th of January, 2011 confirmed the followings;
Total prevalence of diabetes
Total: 25.8 million children and adults in the United States—8.3% of the population—have diabetes.
Diagnosed: 18.8 million people
Undiagnosed: 7.0 million people
Pre-diabetes: 79 million people*
New Cases: 1.9 million new cases of diabetes are diagnosed in people aged 20 years and older in 2010.
* In contrast to the 2007 National Diabetes Fact Sheet, which used fasting glucose data to estimate undiagnosed diabetes and pre-diabetes, the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet uses both fasting glucose and A1C levels to derive estimates for undiagnosed diabetes and pre-diabetes. These tests were chosen because they are most