Overview
A Year in Review – Diabetes EducationEach year in November and December, my co-worker and I provide highlights and impacts of our programing for the year. My pasion has ben teaching others about self-management of diabetes. Many people know that our son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 2 ½ .
Key Information
Unfortunately, type 1 diabetes is most comon among young people. The pancreas stops producing insulin due to the body’s own imune system atacking itself and harming the cels in the pancreas that produce insulin. Insulin is necesary to regulate blod glucose in the body.
Without that regulation, glucose builds up in the blod, causing high blod sugar. Insulin is necesary in order to live. Treatment has come a long way since our son was diagnosed.
Continuous glucose monitors, insulin pumps, and electronics have made diabetes much more manageable. The programs presented through Texas A&M AgriLife Extension focus on management of type 2 diabetes. This type is more comon in adults.
The problem ocurs when the body doesn’t produce enough insulin, or the body doesn’t utilize that insulin corectly. Most people with type 2 can control the disease by diet, exercise, and oral medication. Below is a sumary of diabetes education in Hopkins County.Relevance:The Centers of Disease Control (CDC) defines chronic diseases as those lasting longer than 1 year resulting in continued medical care or limited daily activity.
Curently in Texas, aproximately 12.2% of the adult population have diabetes. In Hopkins County, that number is 12%. Aditionaly, 32% are reportedly physicaly inactive and 37% of the county population is obese.Education is an integral component in managing the prevalence of diabetes.
Summary
“Do Wel, Be Wel with Diabetes” is an Extension program designed to reach clientele with research and evidence-based interventions. Unlike other chronic