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Health and Psychosocial Outcomes in U.S. Adult Patients with Diabetes from Diverse Ethnicities

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Within the United States, diabetes is a serious public health concern and patients with diabetes are more likely to experience clinical depression, psychological distress, and depressive symptoms than those without. Negative psychosocial factors are associated with poorer diabetes management and glycemic control. Overall, both the rates of diabetes and related psychological distress are greater for persons of diverse ethnicities than for non-Latino whites, and have reached epidemic proportions in certain groups. The following article will provide an overview across ethnicities of the rates of diabetes, health outcomes, psychosocial outcomes, and unique cultural and linguistic challenges that contribute to disparities within US diabetes patients of diverse ethnicities. Using this information, our hope is that health care practitioners and researchers alike can better respond to the psychosocial needs of ethnically diverse patients.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, 400 Parnassus Avenue, 4th Floor, UCSF, MailBox 0318, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0318, USA

    Diana Naranjo

  2. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 500 Parnassus Avenue, MU-3East, UCSF, MailBox 0900, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0900, USA

    Danielle M. Hessler

  3. Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California San Francisco, 2 Koret Way, Room N-431J, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0606, USA

    Rupinder Deol & Catherine A. Chesla

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Naranjo, D., Hessler, D.M., Deol, R. et al. Health and Psychosocial Outcomes in U.S. Adult Patients with Diabetes from Diverse Ethnicities. Curr Diab Rep 12, 729–738 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-012-0319-y

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