CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION In the present time‚ the rate of proliferation of diabetic people is continuously and rapidly increasing. Further studies show that the number of diabetes cases worldwide has doubled since 1980 and is now at startling 350 million diabetics. (Laino‚ 2011). Diabetes is a lifelong disease in which the level of glucose in the blood is abnormally high. Connected to this is a condition called hyperglycemia. Hyperglycemia is the technical term for high blood glucose (sugar).
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Survival of the Sickest chapter two concentrates mainly on the disease named diabetes. The full scientific name is actually diabetes mellitus‚ or “passing through honey sweet” Diabetes is an extremely common and well known disease that becomes more and more common every day. The disease is based on sugar is the body‚ or glucose. When your body breaks down carbohydrates‚ it produces glucose‚ and essential sugar for the human body. There is a bodily function in which insulin helps the body use glucose
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suspected to suffer from diabetes mellitus. The blood glucose concentration for Patient B is 111mmol/L (Refer to Table 1) which is much higher compare with Patient A. The test of urine sample from Patient B shows the urine sample from patient B contains glucose but does not contain sodium. As table 2 shows that the present of glucose in urine and high blood glucose level are the symptoms of diabetes mellitus‚ patient B is suspected has diabetes mellitus. Diabetes mellitus is
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Patients with diabetes need to understand what diabetes is. Patients who understand what diabetes is and the complicated process associated with the disease are more likely to comply with the prescribed regimen. Diabetes Mellitus is a syndrome with disordered metabolism and inappropriate hyperglycemia due to either a deficiency of insulin secretion or to a combination of insulin resistance and inadequate insulin secretion to compensate (Davis‚ 2001). Diabetes is a chronic progressive disease that
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3.6.5.4.1.Description: Salvia also is known as common sage or garden sage is a genus belonging to the family Lamiaceae have about 900 species. amongst those species‚ Salvia officinalis has been extensively used as a medicinal plant in treating many diseases (Zupko et al.‚ 2001: (Wichtl‚ 2004). Salvia officinalis is small rounded shrub with a height of two feet and a width of two feet. The flowers are violet-blue‚ pink or white up to 1 3/8 inches lengthy‚ small‚ tube-like clustered together in whorls
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stands five-foot and nine inches tall and weighs two hundred sixty pounds‚ exhibiting moderate obesity and has been for the past twenty-five years. He has a longstanding history of hypertension; approximately twenty years as well as a history of diabetes mellitus type two for twelve years‚ never having been insulin dependant. He has a smoking history of about fifty years smoking two packs per day and has been diagnosed a few years ago with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease‚ making him oxygen-dependant
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Case Study Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Y. L. makes an appointment to come to the clinic where you are employed. She has been complaining of (C/O) chronic fatigue‚ increased thirst‚ constant hunger‚ and frequent urination. She denies any pain‚ burning‚ or low-back pain on urination. She tells you she as a vaginal yeast infection that she has treated numerous times with the over-the-counter (OTC) medication. She admits to starting smoking since going back to work full time as a clerk in a loan
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(antihyperglycaemic study; n=30). The studies had one control group and three groups administered with Cr (100‚ 200 or 400mg/kg) respectively. Group B had two additional groups of diabetic-untreated rats and glibenclamide-treated diabetic rats. Diabetes was induced in Group B rats (except control) fasted overnight for 12hours by intraperitoneal injection of Alloxan (100 mg/kg body weight). Initial fasting blood glucose levels (FBGL) were determined and alloxan-treated rats
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Diabetes Case Study NUR/427 January 13‚ 2011 Diabetes Case Study Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease that affects millions of people across the nation. According to LeMone and Burke (2008)‚ “Approximately 1.3 million new cases of DM are diagnosed each year in the United States” (pg 563). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 23.6 million people in the United States have DM. Collectively 17.9 million people were diagnosed and 5.7 million people were undiagnosed
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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK REFLECTIVE LEARNING LOG 2009/2010 CP2001 NURUL AZIRA SALIM DR.LARRIE MARTIN BRIDGE HOUSE SURGERY‚ CARRIGALINE Case 1 – Gastrointestinal System History On 3rd of December 2009‚ I went to the Bridge House Surgery ‚ Carrigaline for my Augmented Teaching Practice (ATP) attachment with Dr. Larrie Martin. This week focus was on the Gastrointestinal System. Thus‚ this is the history of Mrs L‚ a 53 years old lady who presented with an
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