Spring Break
Abstract:
"Brendon never got sick. That was probably the hardest part," Kynedra Ogunnaike said about her son. Playing the drums, sports, and everything about being an active 6-year-old boy came into question when Brendon Ogunnaike was challenged by a life-changing illness....
Originally posted byMelissa
Hats off to Brendon and his family. I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a preteen and have used an insulin pump for over 11 years. It does get easier in some ways but puberty can be a real wild ride!
To the author: when you say "affecting only 5 to 10 percent of all diabetics and prevalent in eight percent of African Americans" surely you don't mean that 8% of all African Americans have type 1 diabetes? Perhaps 8% of African Americans have some form of diabetes, which would mean a large number of people with type 2 diabetes. Tull et al. (Diabetes Care. 1997 Mar;20(3):309-10.) considered 10.09 cases of type 1 diabetes per 100,000 population in St Croix to be a very high rate of type 1 diabetes among people of African descent. Would you please clarify what you meant? Thanks for a good article.
Melissa
posted 12/11/07 @ 3:04 AM EST
To the author: when you say "affecting only 5 to 10 percent of all diabetics and prevalent in eight percent of African Americans" surely you don't mean that 8% of all African Americans have type 1 diabetes? Perhaps 8% of African Americans have some form of diabetes, which would mean a large number of people with type 2 diabetes. Tull et al. (Diabetes Care. 1997 Mar;20(3):309-10.) considered 10.09 cases of type 1 diabetes per 100,000 population in St Croix to be a very high rate of type 1 diabetes among people of African descent. Would you please clarify what you meant? Thanks for a good article.