Members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny have unique health dispari and worse health out than their heterosexual unter
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COMG OUT TWICE: BEG A GAY DIABETIC
As a type 1 diabetic sce the age of 16, this enunter was the first time my chronic illns impacted my sex life as a gay man. My body went om attackg self om the si, to sabotagg my relatnships as I was g out. This is the story of g out twice: beg a gay diabetic. * gay diabetes *
Thera Garnero, CDCES, a certified diabet re and tn specialist, an assistant clil profsor, and the director of diabet certifite programs at the Universy of the Pacific Sacramento, California, raised this alarm July 2010 the Amerin Diabet Associatn journal Diabet Spectm, revealg that, although there are more lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people wh diabet than there are total people wh type 1 diabet, LGBTQ+ data is unrreported or blocked. It’s a place where patients n feel “blamed and shamed” for body size or diabet stat on top of systemic issu like homo- and transphobia, racism, and ableism. Fd provirs the Gay & Lbian Medil Associatn’s database or the World Profsnal Associatn for Transgenr Health (WPATH) directory.
Methods: Data om the 2014 Behavral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 3776 lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adults and 142, 852 heterosexual adults aged 18 years and olr were ed to timate the prevalence of diabet. Gay men ls often and lbian and bisexual women more often reported a body mass x of 30 kg/m2 or higher than heterosexuals.
GAY MEN AND TYPE 2 DIABET
4% of gay men, and 10. After ntrollg for multiple factors, gay (odds rat [OR] = 1. Keywords:: Behavral Risk Factor Surveillance System, bisexual, diabet, gay, health dispari, lbianIntroductnHeath dispari for lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people have been targeted for elimatn by the Instute of Medice (IOM)1 and Healthy People 2020 goals.
2%) had higher adjted diabet prevalence than gay men (6. 2%), gay men (8. Startg 2014, the BRFSS offered stat an optnal and unified sexual orientatn module, and the followg 19 stat add sexual orientatn qutns to their statewi BRFSS surveys: Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mnota, Montana, Nevada, New York, Oh, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virgia, Wisns, and the BRFSS sexual orientatn module, rponnts were asked, “Do you nsir yourself to be: straight, lbian or gay, bisexual.
” Our fal sample clud 3776 adults who intified as lbian, gay, or bisexual and 142, 852 adults who intified as straight or heterosexual. Other mographic, socenomic, health behavr, and healthre tegoril variabl ed this study were sexual orientatn (lbian, gay, bisexual, or heterosexual); age years (18–29, 30–39, 40–49, 50–64, 65 or olr, missg); race and ethnicy (Whe, Black, Hispanic, other/multiple rac, and missg); relatnship stat (married or livg wh an unmarried partner, formerly married [divorced, separated, or widowed]), never married, refed/do not know; reportg any exercise the past 30 days (y, no, and missg); beg a current smoker, former smoker, or lifetime nonsmoker; havg nsumed ≥7 drks (women) or ≥14 drks (men) per week (y, no, and missg); tnal attament (ls than high school, high school graduate, some llege, llege graduate, and missg); employment stat (employed, unemployed, not paid work force, do not know/not sure, and missg); hoehold e U. We also timated a seri of logistic regrsn mols to pare the prevalence of diabet between lbian/gay, bisexual, and heterosexual adults while crementally adjtg for socmographic characteristics, health behavrs, and accs to re measur.