Three grantees have been selected by ACPM – in collaboration with the American Medical Association and the Black Women's Health Imperative – to receive grants to develop innovative new approaches to recruitment and retention of patients in diabetes prevention programs, focusing on African-American and Hispanic women.
Another six grantees have been selected by ACPM to trial methods for improving the identification of African-American men with hypertension, and referring patients to evidence-based self-measured blood pressure programs.
As April is Minority Health Month, it is especially pertinent to highlight that data show some minority populations are under-enrolled in prevention programs relative to their type 2 diabetes risk. Per data from the National Health Interview Survey, non-Hispanic blacks and people of Hispanic origin have a higher age-adjusted incidence of diabetes compared to non-Hispanic whites. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Diabetes Prevention Recognition Program (DPRP) show that non-Hispanic whites accounted for 59.3 percent of enrolled participants, while 11.3 percent of participants were non-Hispanic blacks, and 8.9 percent were people of Hispanic origin. Research has also found that African-American men have the highest incidence of high-blood pressure, as a percentage of population, of all racial, ethnic and gender groups, per data from the National Center for Health Statistics.
