Health Risk on Diabetes
Chronic Diseases
Hayley Lacy
Sci/163
May 4, 2014
Cara McGowan
Chronic Diseases
Chronic Diseases
The Life Resource Center (LRC) is a valuable free tool available to University of Phoenix students. Taking some time to explore its website to discover some of the many topics, resources, and tools available is a great way to find information to enhance and support health and wellness.
Complete the following assignment:
Chronic Disease Risk Assessment
Take one of the health risk assessments located on the LRC website. After completing the assessment, write a 500- to 750-word summary that includes the following:
Description of the disease
Risk factors for the disease
Lifestyle choices you can make in your life to decrease your modifiable risk factors for this disease
To locate the health risk assessments follow these instructions:
Login to the student website.
Click on the Programs tab at the top of the page, and then on Life Resource Center under Services.
From the LRC home page, click on Thriving.
Click on Health Tools.
Click on Assess Your Health.
Click on the Health Risks tab.
Note. Do not submit or divulge your assessment results. Results should remain private.
The health risk assessment that I took was for developing diabetes. With diabetes, there are two different types, Type 1 and Type 2. The health risk assessment I took was for Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is where the level of sugar or glucose in the blood is abnormally high. Also the level of insulin can be low, normal, or high. The problem with this is that the body does not respond properly to the insulin; the body becomes partially resistant to the effects of insulin. Insulin resistance develops in type 2 diabetes long before the blood sugar starts to rise. This is because the body makes more insulin to compensate. However, either the cells that make insulin tire out or the body becomes so resistant to insulin that the blood sugar begins to rise.
There can
Hayley Lacy
Sci/163
May 4, 2014
Cara McGowan
Chronic Diseases
Chronic Diseases
The Life Resource Center (LRC) is a valuable free tool available to University of Phoenix students. Taking some time to explore its website to discover some of the many topics, resources, and tools available is a great way to find information to enhance and support health and wellness.
Complete the following assignment:
Chronic Disease Risk Assessment
Take one of the health risk assessments located on the LRC website. After completing the assessment, write a 500- to 750-word summary that includes the following:
Description of the disease
Risk factors for the disease
Lifestyle choices you can make in your life to decrease your modifiable risk factors for this disease
To locate the health risk assessments follow these instructions:
Login to the student website.
Click on the Programs tab at the top of the page, and then on Life Resource Center under Services.
From the LRC home page, click on Thriving.
Click on Health Tools.
Click on Assess Your Health.
Click on the Health Risks tab.
Note. Do not submit or divulge your assessment results. Results should remain private.
The health risk assessment that I took was for developing diabetes. With diabetes, there are two different types, Type 1 and Type 2. The health risk assessment I took was for Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is where the level of sugar or glucose in the blood is abnormally high. Also the level of insulin can be low, normal, or high. The problem with this is that the body does not respond properly to the insulin; the body becomes partially resistant to the effects of insulin. Insulin resistance develops in type 2 diabetes long before the blood sugar starts to rise. This is because the body makes more insulin to compensate. However, either the cells that make insulin tire out or the body becomes so resistant to insulin that the blood sugar begins to rise.
There can