National Prevalence of Lifestyle Counseling or Referral Among African-Americans and Whites with Diabetes

Racial/Ethnic Variability in Diabetes Mellitus among United States Residents Is Unexplained by Lifestyle, Sociodemographics and Prognostic Factors

“…In general, it is logical to expect higher education to be associated with lower prevalence of diabetes mellitus because individuals who are educated are more likely to understand the risk factors for diabetes mellitus and apply this knowledge in controlling behavior towards risk factors reduction, namely, alcohol, smoking, and physical inactivity. Lower education level has been associated with increased risk of diabetes mellitus and other chronic diseases [29][30][31][32], and our results clearly support these previous data [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40].…”

Insurance status is a predictor of failure to rescue in trauma patients at both safety net and non–safety net hospitals

“…14 Even in cases where patients do not have a comorbid condition, the general health status of uninsured trauma patients may be poorer because they are less likely to receive healthy lifestyle counseling by health care providers. 27 Uninsured patients may also be more likely to be unemployed or have a low paying job and, as a result, have a lower socioeconomic status increasing their allostatic load. 28 As a result, insurance status may be predictive of FTR outcomes because lack of insurance is associated with patient-related risk factors such as undiagnosed comorbidities, poorly controlled chronic illnesses, and a general decline in health status that is not measured by other factors in the study.…”

Internal Medicine Residents’ Comfort with and Frequency of Providing Dietary Counseling to Diabetic Patients

“…Unfortunately, physicians infrequently provide dietary counseling to their diabetic patients 4,5 . Furthermore, graduating residents in primary care fields do not feel prepared to provide general dietary counseling 6 .…”