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Running Head : CLINICAL SITUATION : DIABETES

CLINICAL SITUATION : DIABETES (Your name (Your school

CLINICAL SITUATION : DIABETES

Introduction

Chronic illness refers to those diseases which are either long-lasting or persistent Disease that are chronic normally takes a period not less than three months . These are thus diseases which lead to suffering of the individuals for sometime . The number of people suffering from chronic illness is increasing at an alarming rate , making the issue to be of major concern in many countries . Perhaps this is due several factors which include the increased poverty

level and dietary changes in our daily food and nutrition practices . Research information has shown that there are many people allover the globe that are said to suffer from chronic illness (Peirce , 1999

Chronic illness attack all range of age groups . However , these vary from one type of illness to another . There are those chronic illnesses which might be common among the infants and these might be very different from those which are common among the adolescent and the adults as well as the aged persons . In the United States , it is said that 1 out of every 2 individuals have got the problem of chronic illness . A number of these chronic conditions are established as potentially killer diseases . There are scores of people in the united States that are languishing in the painful conditions of high blood pressure , respiratory problems and diabetes among others (Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group 2002

Diabetes

The problem of diabetes is referred to be...