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Treatment Management Strategies for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Proposal of Literature
Review
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Treatment Management Strategies for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Proposal of Literature
Introduction
Diabetes has been shown to be a leading cause of health complications and premature
deaths around the globe. Diabetes is seen as chronic hyperglycemia ensuing from decreased
secretion of insulin or impaired action of the same in the absence of autoimmune obliteration of
pancreatic beta cells. It is important to note that diabetes disproportionately affects different
populations but the number of people affected is rising at an alarming rate. According to the
World Health Organization (WHO, 2020), more than 422 million people around the globe suffer
from diabetes and this number is projected to rise in coming years (WHO, 2020). While much of
the research about T2DM has centered on the United States and Europe, the disease is equally
felt in other parts of the world. As such, limiting research to developed countries my overlook
the potential of other countries to learn and inhibit efforts to garner global resources for
development of cost effective strategies.
Justification of Topic Area
Nurses are inevitably included as members of multidisciplinary care teams charged with
prevention and management of T2DM. The prevalence rate of T2DM around the globe continues
to increase at an unprecedented rate with a growing number of people suffering from pre-
diabetes. In most cases, T2DM is common in older, obese patients but it also affects younger
people. In the US alone, it is estimated that about 8 percent of the whole population suffers from
diabetes with 95 percent of the patients showing signs of T2DM (Suri, 2020). Increasing cases of
obesity in the population is fueling the T2DM epidemic particularly among the younger
generation. With increased obesity cases, some populations that were previously distinguished as
likely to have cases of diabetes are also recording cases of the disease. In addition to lowering
Treatment Management Strategies for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Proposal of Literature
Review
Name:
Department:
Class:
Lecturer
Date:
, 2
Treatment Management Strategies for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Proposal of Literature
Introduction
Diabetes has been shown to be a leading cause of health complications and premature
deaths around the globe. Diabetes is seen as chronic hyperglycemia ensuing from decreased
secretion of insulin or impaired action of the same in the absence of autoimmune obliteration of
pancreatic beta cells. It is important to note that diabetes disproportionately affects different
populations but the number of people affected is rising at an alarming rate. According to the
World Health Organization (WHO, 2020), more than 422 million people around the globe suffer
from diabetes and this number is projected to rise in coming years (WHO, 2020). While much of
the research about T2DM has centered on the United States and Europe, the disease is equally
felt in other parts of the world. As such, limiting research to developed countries my overlook
the potential of other countries to learn and inhibit efforts to garner global resources for
development of cost effective strategies.
Justification of Topic Area
Nurses are inevitably included as members of multidisciplinary care teams charged with
prevention and management of T2DM. The prevalence rate of T2DM around the globe continues
to increase at an unprecedented rate with a growing number of people suffering from pre-
diabetes. In most cases, T2DM is common in older, obese patients but it also affects younger
people. In the US alone, it is estimated that about 8 percent of the whole population suffers from
diabetes with 95 percent of the patients showing signs of T2DM (Suri, 2020). Increasing cases of
obesity in the population is fueling the T2DM epidemic particularly among the younger
generation. With increased obesity cases, some populations that were previously distinguished as
likely to have cases of diabetes are also recording cases of the disease. In addition to lowering
