weight; her current weight is 78.5 Kg‚ she is 160 cm (5’3”) tall. Today‚ her blood pressure is 152/97 mm Hg‚ and her plasma glucose level is 16.1 mmol/L. Her family physician orders the following diagnostic tests: urinalysis‚ HbA1c‚ fasting BG (blood glucose)‚ fasting lipid profile (cholesterol‚ LDL‚ HDL and triglycerides). Lab results are as follows: Fasting BG: 10.2 mmol/L HbA1c: 10.4% Urinalysis: positive glucose‚ negative ketones Total cholesterol: 7.3 mmol/L LDL: 240 mmol/L HDL:
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References 1. American Diabetes Association. Standards of medical care in diabetes--2011. Diabetes Care. 2011;34 Suppl 1:S11-S61. [PubMed] 2. Eisenbarth GS‚ Polonsky KS‚ Buse JB. Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus. In: Kronenberg HM‚ Melmed S‚ Polonsky KS‚ Larsen PR.Kronenberg: Williams Textbook of Endocrinology. 11th ed. Philadelphia‚ Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2008:chap 31. 3. Pignone M‚ Alberts MJ‚ colwell JA‚ Cushman M‚ Inzucchi SE‚ Mukherjee D‚ et al. Aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular
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understand what that is and what goes along with it. Hypertension is just our fancy word for high blood pressure. Blood pressure is the amount of pressure that your blood is putting on the walls of your arteries. Now most people don’t even realize they have high blood pressure because more often than not‚ there are no signs or symptoms going along with it. Now‚ when checking your blood pressure we put on the blood pressure cuff and then we listen for your heart beat. There are two stages we get‚ one is
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The movie “Blood In…Blood Out‚” is a movie about the realities of the streets‚ crime‚ drugs‚ gangs and prison life. It tells the story of three young Chicano teens who are trying to survive in East Los Angeles. First‚ you meet Paco‚ a rebellious teen that loves a fight‚ and is in a small East Los Angeles Street gang called “Vatos Locos.” Then‚ there is his half brother Cruz‚ who is an artist‚ he is trying to stay away from the gang life by painting‚ however‚ he still is and hangs with the Vatos Locos
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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
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Diabetes Education And The Increase In Diabetes Diabetes is becoming a worldwide epidemic. It is one of the biggest health challenges that the United Kingdom (UK) is facing today with one person being diagnosed with diabetes every 3 minutes (Diabetes UK‚ 2009). The latest data indicates that there are now 2.8 million of people with diabetes in UK and nine out of ten people diagnosed with diabetes are Type 2 diabetes (2.5 millions). According to health experts‚ UK is now facing a huge public health
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that make caring challenging not only for their health care providers‚ but also for the individual and their family. I choose how the chronic disease diabetes type II affects a patient’s health and reflect on three health promotion interventions that will help manage and minimize the effects that this disease has on their well-being. Diabetes is a disease that affects many people in a community and if not diagnosed and managed properly‚ can lead to other comorbidities.
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Type 1 Diabetes: Causes: Autoimmune Response Type 1 diabetes is usually a progressive autoimmune disease‚ in which the beta cells that produce insulin are slowly destroyed by the body’s own immune system. It is unknown what first starts this cascade of immune events‚ but evidence suggests that both a genetic predisposition and environmental factors‚ such as a viral infection‚ are involved. Islets of Langerhans contain beta cells and are located within the pancreas. Beta cells produce
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Chapter 1 1.0 Introduction Blood Donor Recruitment (BDR) is the process of drawing blood from a voluntary Blood Donor (BD) for future blood transfusion‚ Wikipedia (2006). In Nigeria‚ blood collection‚ safety and management is an activity that is carried out by Nigeria Red Cross Society (NRCS) in partnership with Nigeria Blood Transfusion (NBTS). Founded in 1939‚ NRCS is part of the world wide Red Cross Humanitarian Movement whose mission is to mobilize the power of humanity for improving the lives
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------------------------------------------------- Gestational diabetes Gestational diabetes (or gestational diabetes mellitus‚ GDM) is a condition in which women without previously diagnosed diabetes exhibit high blood glucose levels during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes generally has few symptoms and it is most commonly diagnosed byscreening during pregnancy. Diagnostic tests detect inappropriately high levels of glucose in blood samples. Gestational diabetes affects 3-10% of pregnancies‚ depending on the population
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