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A 4 page research paper that focuses on adolescent diabetics and discusses this cohort of patients from the perspective of primary, secondary and tertiary preventive care. Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are briefly discussed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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secondary prevention refers to the early onset of disease and appropriate intervention, which can serve to offset the effects of a disease and tertiary prevention is designed to lessen the
impact that a disease has on the body, as well as promoting "quality of life through active rehabilitation" (DH, 2007). Each of these levels of preventive care address distinct needs
for a population, such as adolescents. In 1979, Savage and his colleagues provided the first published description of type 2 diabetes in six obese Native American children (Newmark and
Anhalt, 2007). Prior to the 1990s, documented cases of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents were rare. However, by 1994, type 2 diagnoses represented 16 percent of new diabetes
cases among children living in urban areas (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). The prevalence of type 2 diabetes differs according to ethnic groups and geographical locations, but statistics show hat by
2001, type 2 diabetes represented 76 percent of all diabetic cases among Native American populations (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). While the majority of diabetes cases in children (below the
age of 10) remain type 1 diabetes, the incidence of type 2 cases are on the rise (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Therefore, it is important for nursing interventions to differentiate
between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin production," which results due to an autoimmune response
by the body that destroys the ability of the pancreas to produce insulin (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007, p. 109). Type 2 diabetes is largely due to "insulin resistance associated with
obesity" (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007, p. 109). These pathology of each disease is different and therefore, requires different approaches relevant to the different levels of preventative care. As type
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