Type 2 Diabetes- Written Response 1- Cause of the disease There is no singular cause of type 2 diabetes. However‚ there are certain factors that are known to contribute to the development of the disease. One of these factors is genetics. It has been proven that people with a family history of diabetes have a higher risk of developing the disease than someone who doesn’t. Age is also an important factor. The older you are‚ the greater the risk of type 2 diabetes developing. (Diabetes Australia‚
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Eating Healthy and Diabetes 2 Imagine a time when being thin was not a race and eating a healthy diet was something that we all did as a habit. American’s have gotten so caught up in looking the way the models in Hollywood look that we have developed horrible eating habits. The fact that we eat most of time out of stress is proof enough that we are trying to bear too much weight on their shoulders. When applying a healthy diet and regular exercise‚ a person with diabetes can greatly reduce
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host from the action of self reactive lymphocytes. An organ-specific autoimmune disease involves gradual damage to cellular structures and is replaced by the compensating connective tissue which depletes the function of the gland/organ. Type 1 diabetes (TD1)‚ is an organ specific autoimmune disease characterize by distraction of the B cells located at the islets of langerham in pancreas resulting in a limited secretion of hormone. T1D sufferer’ s immune cells such as anti body T cell and CD8
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What is Type 2 Diabetes? Type 2 Diabetes is a lifelong disease in which there is a high level of sugar (glucose) in the blood. It is the most common form of diabetes. Obesity is common in patients with type 2 diabetes. Statistics show that four out of five victims of type 2 diabetes are overweight of obese. Type 2 diabetes is a condition in which ones pancreas makes enough insulin‚ but the body cannot use the insulin correctly. This is called insulin resistance. Insulin resistance occurs in
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Diabetes is a chronic condition in which the levels of glucose in the blood are too high. Anna Foley is a newly diagnosed patient with diabetes mellitus type 1. It will be discussed how diabetes mellitus type 1 disrupts the normal control of blood glucose in the body‚ the presenting symptoms of someone who has been newly diagnosed with the condition‚ and the nursing care requirements and care plan will be outlined for Miss Foley. According to Australian Diabetes Council (2013)‚ type one diabetes
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Type 2 Diabetes accounts for 90% to 95% of all diabetes diagnoses and of the estimated 43 million adults who are over the age of 65‚ one in four has diabetes. It is very common for a nurse in any health care setting to care for an older adult who has diabetes. Hypoglycemia is one of the dangers associated with the diagnoses of diabetes. In the timespan from 2006 to 2009 adults 75 years or older who were diagnosed with diabetes visited the emergency room for hypoglycemia almost three times more than
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Diabetes Diabetes is a disease in which your body is unable to properly use and store glucose. Glucose backs up in the bloodstream causing your blood glucose or "sugar" to rise too high. There are two major types of diabetes‚ Type I and Type II. In Type I diabetes‚ your body completely stops producing any insulin‚ a hormone that lets your body use glucose found in foods for energy. People with Type I diabetes must take daily insulin injections to survive. This form of diabetes usually develops
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Effect of Diabetes on Healthcare and Nursing It can be argued that there is no greater health concern in the world‚ and in particular‚ the United States than the rapidly increasing number of people diagnosed with diabetes. Relatively recent changes to the diet and lifestyle of the general public have created a "perfect storm" of conditions that seem to perpetuate the onset of diabetes in an increasing number of people on a daily basis. According to the American Diabetes Association‚ the annual
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Family Life with Type One Diabetes Type one diabetes affect more than the person who has it‚ it affects everyone around them too. Family life changes to adjust to the person with diabetes. Type one diabetes affects your family financially‚ emotional‚ physical and structurally Type one diabetes is hard‚ but families that work together can help make the person who has ‚ its life a little easier. Type one Diabetes has a way to of hurting the people and the people around them. One way it does hurt
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How will Diabetes Affect Our Body and Lives? Shannon Ashley HS200 Section #4 Unit 4 Capstone Project: Diabetes Kaplan University May 12‚ 2014 The first steps in understanding your diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes is understanding the disease and how it affects you. What do you need to know? First‚ you will need to know what diabetes is and how it affects your body and your life. You will need to know what type of diabetes you have. Next you have to know how to manage your
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