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    Diabetes‚ what is it? Diabetes is defined by Wikipedia “as a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar‚ either because the body does not produce enough insulin‚ or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced.” Diabetes is a chronic debilitating disease that affects over 8 percent of the American population‚ however‚ with diet‚ exercise and medication‚ it is controllable and patients can live a long meaningful life with type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes

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    Essay #1- Diabetes Diabetes is a disease the body undergoes when it is unable to produce any or enough insulin‚ due to a high level of glucose in the blood. According to the website diabetes.org‚ statistics show that‚ “diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in the United States in 2010 based on the 69‚071 death certificates in which diabetes was listed as the underlying cause of death.” Diabetes was discovered in 1889‚ later on various types of diabetes were identified and classified based

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    have little access to rich foods experience few heart attacks. Similarly‚ most people in rural Africa and South and Central America have little fear of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Yet in North America‚ Australia‚ New Zealand‚ and the increasingly affluent countries in Europe and Asia‚ where diets are rich in fat‚ heart disease and diabetes are epidemic. The villains: low fiber and high fat‚ take their toll by damaging the body’s vital oxygen-carrying arteries and by upsetting important metabolic

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    Understanding the care and management of Diabetes Level 2 UNIT 1 Assessment 1.1 Understand the function of glucose in the blood 1) 1.1 Explain what ‘blood glucose’ is: Blood glucose is glucose in the blood stream. Glucose comes from eating and digesting carbohydrates. 2) 1.2 Describe the difference between simple and complex carbohydrates: Carbohydrates that break down rapidly during digestion are known as simple carbohydrates because they rapidly release glucose into the blood stream. Carbohydrates

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    Diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar‚ either because the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced. This high blood sugar produces the classical symptoms of frequent urination‚ increased thirst and increased hunger. Management Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease‚ for which there is no known cure except in very specific situations. Management concentrates on keeping blood sugar levels as

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    INTRODUCTION: Diabetes plays a huge role in my family’s health history. It is not my mom or my dad or my brother who have it‚ but it still affects my life. My grandma‚ Sandy Soda‚ has diabetes. When I was little‚ I remember her pricking her finger and never knowing why. After my research‚ I now have a different perspective on what she goes through. My grandmother is a very strong woman and I look up to her because she never shows weakness. If you would look at my grandma‚ a person would never know

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    Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Prevented With Early Pharmacological Intervention 1. Ralph A. DeFronzo‚ MD⇓ and  2. Muhammad Abdul-Ghani‚ MD‚ PHD +Author Affiliations 1. Diabetes Division‚ University of Texas Health Science Center‚ San Antonio‚ Texas 1. ↵Corresponding author: Ralph A. DeFronzo‚ albarado@uthscsa.edu.   Next Section Abstract Today in America‚ there is twice the amount of individuals who have impaired glucose tolerance (IGT)‚ compared to individuals having type 2 diabetes. Of those

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    Diabetes Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease. There are two types of diabetes‚ type 1‚ and type 2. This is the fastest growing disease in America‚ with 50% of the adults being diagnosed with it. This disease is number six in the leading cause of death. There are about 225‚000 people that die from related complications of diabetes. Diabetes is caused from the body producing‚ too much glucose in the blood. In a healthy person glucose enters the blood stream from the organs. The pancreas

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    Delaney Sebben English 2 basic April 7‚ 2014 Diabetes I. Diabetes is a metabolic disease where the body cannot make enough or any insulin. There are many ways to prevent diabetes‚ by knowing the symptoms and causes. diabetes is a disease with very few treatments‚ but it can affect your life in many ways. II. Finding ways to prevent all types and kinds of diabetes. A. make sure that you are staying physically active for more than two hours a day it is very

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    Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes Mellitus (DM) – “a chronic‚ progressive disease characterized by the body’s inability to metabolize carbohydrates‚ fats‚ and proteins‚ leading to hyperglycaemia (high blood glucose level)” (Black & Hawks‚ 2009‚ p. 1062) Epidemiology: Pathophysiology Overview According to Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System‚ “[i]n 2008/09‚ close to 2.4 million Canadians aged 1 yr and older were living w/ diagnosed diabetes (either type 1 or type 2)” making diabetes as one

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