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Ethnic Differences Influencing The Impact Of Childhood Type I Diabetes Mellitus In Low Income Families, Sadiqa Adero Ihsan Edmonds-Myles

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Over the past decade, great strides have been made in the treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus. Although these advances have increased the proportion of young patients who are able to achieve strict metabolic control, there continues to be a disparity in the HbA1c levels of the African American and Hispanic American youth relative to Caucasian American youth, and in children of lower socioeconomic status (SES) relative to children of higher SES. Few studies have explored the underlying factors associated with this disparity and even fewer have analyzed how people of different ethnic backgrounds within lower socioeconomic groups deal with …